C.J. Stroud Speaks Prior To Wild Card Game, CFB Semifinals Preview Notre Dame Vs. Penn State, Rockets Vs. Grizzlies Matchup

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Saulisbury, old Bury, Salisbury, Houston. Okay, let's do this.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Shawn Salisbury, USC Truths, longtime friend, Shawn Salisbury, Brian Lima,
go Lobos. This is the Shawn Salisbury Show.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
Shawn Salisbury, Brian li Lima, Manuel Elmore. Rockets back on
the hardwood tonight, taking on the Memphis Grizzly in Memphis.

Speaker 4 (00:29):
Seven o'clock tip off.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
Six o'clock is when the launch pat will start right
here on seven on your home for Rockets basketball. Texans
inching closer to their playoff game on Saturday against the Chargers.
Three thirty kickoff. College football Playoff semi Finals tonight, Notre Dame,
Penn State, Shawn trip League, Good morning, what's up? Gonna
be some nasty weather today? Only a hive about forty

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rain all day.

Speaker 4 (00:53):
Well, some of you guys were just fact had some
of us were actually out on the field training in
that yesterday? Were you really, Oh yeah, dude, forty degrees
yesterday when it was worse than that, You get up
towards you get good. Yeah the window, Yeah it felt
like about twenty eight degrees. Yeah, not good man, He said,
you know what, do you want to be a champion? Brian,
do you want to stomp the grapes? You want to
drink the wine? Right? Okay, what I'm talking about, fire

(01:14):
me up this morning. And the truth is if you
want to drink the wine. The truth is, like anything,
you got to stomp the grapes too. You want to
wat It's not like, well you go do do the
work your shop. Yeah, so what I'm talking about champion?
So too, you want to be a champion? Yeah, you
want to You want to be a champion? Well, champions
are made when no one's watching jam right, nice well,
silent working stops and the lonely work. So you know

(01:36):
those people out there building wineries and they're out there
and all that hard work. You know what, sometimes you
just can't sit back and say we sit back at
times and drink the wine. Right, But if you really
want to do it right, stop the grapes yourself and
then drink. You'll appreciate drinking the wine. If you stop
the great I'll make you appreciate life, that's right. So
what I do yesterday I go out, I'm stomping grapes.
Who are you training yesterday, Brian? Yeah, my bat you're right?

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But was like asked me, who are you banging? I mean,
come on now, man, Yeah, you're right, you're right, my bad?
You know? Yeah, what dude, these days were right? Right?
Who was that training? You know what I'll tell you
I was training? Was Maybury was putting? Damn right? He
was damn righty was so you were up in the woods.
I was, yes, Yes, it was, yes, it was. Now

(02:22):
imagine if you had to catch the ball that's coming
off receiver with him. Yeah, I'll tell you. He has
his big brother mckaid, who played at Oklahoma Cow in
Oklahoma's now in Kansas City's uh can't see because he's
rehaving a knee. He's on the the guye you know,
the iron in Kansas City. And he'll go back to
training camp there. And I said, you must like that kid.
It's nice to get a ring of the kids that
he chiefs if it happens, you know. And so I

(02:44):
rehab and I'm gonna tell you Somethingud. He's out there
catching balls. Is a three hundred pound a linement. Is
he as big as Oh, he's just as every bit
as he's bigger, But he out there catching. But he's
got like tightened hands. I'm like, you got the good
guys were reh having a knee but he was just stationary.
But we you know, spotted around the one at the field.
So always like listen, I don't need to hear how

(03:05):
rough the water is. The Maybury's offense out there making
plays like he didn't have to do it, you know what, grinding? Yeah,
never know when Andy Reid's got a chip in the
old guard. Tackle eligible, right right, get yourself ready, got
to get those hands warm. Man, and man, I'm said,
they're thinking, I'm glad I don't have to catch you
ill he's got gloves, but the ball is jumping at
me saying he's got an arm. That's like pretty stupid. Yeah,

(03:25):
hard pass on that. Yeah, that's why I said what
everybody tries. I said, you better big receivers. Can I
ever catch it again? Now? My hands have been beat
up enough. I got to coach you I can't catch
it and then coach you. So but yeah, man, it
was uh, it was a little chilly. It's supposed to
rain to day right all day. Yeah, that's what I
get a little nervous about the for people. I know
how to drive it, but anybody and I don't know
if it ever hits here, I can't remember. In all

(03:47):
the years, if they're black ice that comes to Houston,
we've getten. Uh, we've gotten iving and overpass and stuff. Yeah,
but dude, I'm telling you, if you saw outside of
Texas about a week ago, like an eighty five car
pile up, Yeah, and I've seen him in the pass
and in Minnesota where I've been where that black ice
hits and you don't know it. You're going and all
of a sudden you hit a patch of it. And
Can Torri was doing this on the air the other
day because I think he was talking about the text

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is they you hit it, and what's the initial reaction
the second you start to slide break Yeah, and instead
of turn away, people turn away from it, instead of
turn entry all those things. You don't You're like, okay,
how's my reactions? Yeah, you start to see videos of
I've seen there's been a hundred I mean pile ups,
and because once it gets started, you start to do

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the back boom another one and eighty ninety one hundred
car pile up and those happened because that black ice,
and you can be going twenty miles an hour you
hit it. It speeds up your vehicle, and if you're the
one at the beginning, and you know how many eighteen
wheelers are on the freeway, if you can possibly get
out of your vehicle, I don't. I don't, but I've
said there. I was watching a video the other day.
Gal gets out of her vehicle or it was a guy.

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I thought they said a female, but couldn't tell because
they were, you know, dressed and covered up. It was
with like a sweatshirt or something on. Got out, slipped
on the ice and fell down, but the door was open.
Eighteen wheeler comes and hits it, and the door you
know how the door's open, slip fell down between the
door and the and how you'd get out of the door,
and fell down so low the door over the top.
When the eighteen wheeler hit the back of that car,

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it spun around, the door went right over. The person
said they were fortunate they slipped because they slipped down
parallel to the ground and the bottom of the door
missed the top of their head as it turned around
and spun one eighty degrees when the eighteen wheeler hit it,
and then scrambled around to get off the free So
they don't slip in all they maybe decapitate, oh god,

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or there, or that door hits them so hard they
fly into the windshield of the eighteen wheeler that just
hit that bad the back part of the vehicle and
spun it. Right now, you never want anybody get out
on the road. But when it's that pile up, it
starts to look like a regular street. But they keep coming,
and this is one after the other. And you know,
even at fifteen miles an hour, twenty miles an hour,
now fifteen miles an hour and eighteen wheeler. You see

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though it it's gut wrenching. So you say, man, and
if you're at the somewhere stuck in the middle, it's like,
I gotta get out of this because boom, it just
constantly keeps hitting you. You never know, right, but those
pilots that black ice. I always get worried about people
that because you know the heat. If you get that
and all of a sudden ice settles in and they
hit that black eye. Student, it's you are in truth.

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That's the one time you're out of control when you're driving,
you decide you can't do anything that's right.

Speaker 3 (06:24):
Yeah, this this weather pattern that we got going on,
especially here in the state of Texas. You got snow
and ice up in Dallas, and then obviously in the
Midwest and the northeast, they're going to get pounded by
all this snow. And then you go over to the
West coast and these fires are just raging on to
the point where Vikings and Rams might have to move
to Glendale if these fires can't get under control over there.

Speaker 4 (06:45):
A couple of the Cardinal Stadium, the.

Speaker 3 (06:47):
Freaking uh Hollywood Hills lit up last night right off sunset.

Speaker 4 (06:52):
Insane man and places and stuff. Every every schools, all
the schools that their kids grew up in, yeah, are
burnt down. And the well for an insurance company to
cut off all their insurance four months ago. Yeah, and
for the water just not quite being able to get

(07:14):
the water supply because the fire hyder, We're going to dry, Like,
come on, man, what are we doing? Well, you can
get all your conspiracy theories. Doesn't it make you wonder? Yeah,
is it a coincidence? Why the timing? I always think
about that, Yeah, timings, why they're Why the timing, Why
the insurance cut off? And then why the water supply? Yeah,

(07:35):
you're sitting next to the ocean in Pacific Palisades. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (07:38):
And then also you have all the snow and ice
from the north side of the or from the northern
part of the state that comes down. They have a
I forgot, there's some kind I don't know if it's
a law or mandate or something.

Speaker 4 (07:50):
Basically they take the the.

Speaker 3 (07:53):
When the snow and ice melts, that water gets sent
straight into the Pacific Ocean to try to help one
need it fish species. It's one instead of sending it
down the state to help the reservoirs like for what
LA needs.

Speaker 4 (08:08):
Righting aqueduct and the rest. It is. I don't know
that there's so much. I mean then you first think, okay,
what's this distraction. I'll tell you the distraction for them,
lives are ruined and lives are taking it. And think
about when you see that place, it looks like a
bomb was dropped in a third world country. It's apocalyptic
as well. It really I'm waiting for Kurt Russell in

(08:31):
his show where it's like, what was it Escape from
LA or something where it's like the apocalypse hit in
that area. And yes there's money there, but remember when
when people say, well they got a lot. It doesn't matter.
There's certain things you can replace. Yes, it's in there.
There'll be a lot of support there. I get it.
But mother nature there's no color, no knows no social status, knows,

(08:58):
no age. And it's devastating for those people. You know,
you overhear you feel like, well, what do you do?
And it's not done? Yeah, and the winds are still
ragedous sant Ana wins in January and it is they are,
and they are un characteristic thirty yards thirty miles prior
stronger forty sometimes I mean pushing sixty seventy eighty depending
on where your gus. And those firefighters that are fighting

(09:20):
twenty four to forty eight seventy two straight hours. I
heard one they were talking about on Fox yesterday. It's crazy.
I don't know, man, It's just that's not the way
you want them to start there now twenty twenty five.

Speaker 3 (09:32):
No, and I think the biggest thing, uh and some
what about the older folks that don't have insurance? Yeah,
like that's the whole thing is and.

Speaker 4 (09:38):
Can can't and they're eighty and they can't rebuild their
they they can't go back to work at.

Speaker 3 (09:43):
Twenty ev executive everybody thinks not everybody, but a lot
of people think that that area is just nothing but
celebrities and rich, rich people. No, it's not like Palisades
High School. Like there are people that are just normal
class people there.

Speaker 4 (09:55):
The traveling park has been destroyed. Yeah, Taylor Park for
people that may just do it for a leisure thing.
Their lives are ruined. Well, and think about this now.
There was a guy that came on with a guest
and I think it was Brett Baar that was interviewing him.
This this gentleman, and he was looked like he was
volunteering too. Years ago in the nineties, he bought Donnie Most.
For you guys who don't know him, he's the redhead

(10:16):
on happy Days, Donnie Most. When you look at he's
the red head. And he bought his house in Malibu.
The house this guy is his dream home, right the
house burned down a handful of years later, while he's
finished repairing it as his dream home, Arson burns his
house down. Jesus. So he's over here now living in

(10:37):
a trailer Port lives in a trailer which fine, we're
raising his you know, he raised his kids and trying
to get back and starting to get back to the Okay,
how do I rebuild this again? You know, well you
lose all that starts to rebuild it again. This fire
destroyed it, and his trailer parks destroyed the place he's living.
It's like four fires have destroyed the guys at different times.

(10:57):
Now come on, Yeah, and this guy's talking calmly and
with poison. I'm thinking, but i'd be so I don't
even know what the emotions would be. Well, I watched that.

Speaker 3 (11:09):
I gotta admit to you, I watched Entertainment tonight last night,
just to see like the celebrity side of things. One
of the actors. Remember the show General Hospital. I forgot the.

Speaker 4 (11:19):
Grew in college when we'd watched it in the middle
of the day we come from from class called g H.

Speaker 3 (11:24):
Yeah, at General Hospital. We watched it religious every day
and young and the wrestless. Oh yeah, to live. Yeah,
I remember when I was a kid and you'd staysts hell. Yeah,
that was your play guy with the what was the
guy's name with the big mustache? He was like the
main one of the main characters. Anyway, I would tell
you who his name was.

Speaker 4 (11:41):
It's uh John, big mustache cage you've been around, like
like around forever. Look like I mean like he belonged
in a smoking a cigar with a smoking jacket. Yeah,
uh not the Quarantine the the is it the Quarantine family?
I know exactly what you're talking about. Quartermain is a quartermain.

(12:05):
If I pulled this out of my ass, dude, I
get up and buy Mike dropping because I haven't seen
this in the soap opera. If it's the back cabit Okay,
but that's his real name, yeah, okay, I'm sorry, that's
his uh Peter Bergman. Okay, the quarter I'm thinking. I
don't know, but Jay is the Quartermain family part I
know in one of those soap o somebody's listen right,
and I said, oh, yeah, it's the general the Quartermain's.

(12:26):
They're like a big rich like family. Spell it like
quarter common spelling quartermain. And see if there's not on
one of those soap operas like a quartermain family. There
you go. What soap opera was it said, let's see
allan quatermain. Come on, now, now you think about that.

(12:47):
I did. I did to check that out after all
these years college and watching GH. You can miss GH
one day and then six months later you could see it,
and Luke and Laura were there.

Speaker 3 (12:57):
Sam Worthington played him, Well, see, i'd have to dig
there's quarters. But I was right right, Yeah, yeah, of
course you were. But uh and Laura uh, the the
actor for General Hospital. He was telling the Entertainment Night
crew his his his home, like it's it's completely just gone.

Speaker 4 (13:18):
It's it's burnt memories anything.

Speaker 3 (13:22):
Yeah, he said he tried to hang in as long
as he could, and then when he said he realized
it was starting to get pretty damn close, he said
he only had time to grab a stuffed animal, his
daughter's favorite stuffed animal.

Speaker 4 (13:32):
I think, he said.

Speaker 3 (13:32):
He grabbed a picture I forgot of who, and then
he was able to grab his dog's ashes and that's
all he could get and he got the hell out
of there. Now, think about that, the dog ashes from
the past from his dog, that that that passed away. Yeah,
and you got to start all that. Yeah, that sucks, man.
Natural disasters are harsh, horrible, horrible man.

Speaker 4 (13:52):
All right, Well you read some sports, yeah, I mean,
let's yeah, yeah, but you know what sports that those
things are real life, thank you. I know, athletes affected,
human beings affected, every single day, every day life, local
places that you've gone for, the destroyed on the I mean.

Speaker 3 (14:08):
Just Chargers have had to adjust their entire practice schedule
because of everything.

Speaker 4 (14:11):
There's a collateral damage and people lost their lives in this.
So just waking up and if you got grand, I mean,
how do you explain it? What do you do? Where
do you start? Yeah, where do you start? Exactly? So
just terrible man. So yeah, of course we're going to
talk sports. We have four hours of that, but we
do have to you know, you have to give a
little love and respect to those that are and our
first responders and our fire that are battling every single day,

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not knowing what it's going to turn on them with
this wind and there, I mean dangerous, God bless them. Yeah,
I wouldn't want to do it. Nope, there's no doubt.

Speaker 3 (14:39):
All right, let's talk about that Texans and Chargers playoff matchup.
Bobby Slow spoke to the media yesterday. What's been the
biggest challenge in his second year of calling plays?

Speaker 4 (14:48):
That's next, Let's go.

Speaker 1 (14:52):
This is this Sean Salisbury show.

Speaker 4 (14:56):
See how the Rockets fair.

Speaker 5 (14:57):
Go?

Speaker 4 (14:57):
Man, Let's go be a good one. Like what I'm
saying being out of the rockets. Now that we're into
January with this hoop stuff, they're gonna be a fun
watch and how there's sustainability through all this. It's gonna
be awesome. Who was that Triple E Tail, Brian? You
know who that group was? No, you never heard of it?
Who is it? You never heard that song? Tripley? Who
was that? Steely Steely Dan? I know that's one of

(15:18):
their all time favorite cuts. All right, Oh you're not
even steely ied to talk about Steely Dan. No, I'm
not hurts. That hurts cuts me pretty deep, I mean
a little deep.

Speaker 3 (15:29):
This morning, hey, and today today is the final day
that teams can exchange salary figures for arbitration eligible players
in Major League Baseball. M Ashe's got to get a
couple of guys figured out frommer Valdez, Mauricio Dubon. They
settled with Louis Garcia yesterday and think got Brian A Bray, You,
Chaz McCormick, Jake Myers, Jeremy Pania. So we'll see if

(15:51):
any lot of bodies, yeah, man, see if any of
those guys are gonna have to go to arbitration.

Speaker 4 (15:55):
Hopefully you avoid all that.

Speaker 3 (15:58):
Let's see Louis Garcia and Astro settle for one point
eight seven to five mili. So good for uh Lou Yeah,
lou Garci exactly, lou Garcia.

Speaker 4 (16:08):
Yeah, yeah, we'll see. Uh. I think lou Garcia, if
he could ever stay healthy over extending a point of
time amount of time, Yeah, it would be a really
solid pitcher in this league. I think so consistently, I
really do. I think they you know, he's figured out
the wind up and the pitch clock and the rest
of it. I like lou Yeah, I think he's got
and he seems like a good enough dude. Yeah. I
don't know anything about him but other than what we see,

(16:30):
but I think having him healthy gives you a lot
more versatility. Be great. Highly underpaid when he's healthy, yeah,
baseball terms. Yeah, but you'll take those bargains anytime you
can get them.

Speaker 6 (16:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (16:41):
Absolutely. All right.

Speaker 3 (16:42):
Let's hear Bobby Sloan talked about the challenges he's faced
this year as a second year play caller.

Speaker 7 (16:48):
You know, I kind of alluded to it already, like
every year is different. You know, you can go into
seasons and you think you have like a a certain
group or a certain scheme or a certain style that
you think you're going to be able to go in
and play and do. But it's it happens every year,
like it changes and evolves as you go and that

(17:09):
process this year has, without a doubt, happened. And I
think last year I probably found the answer faster than
I have this year. But I feel like we've really
gotten to a place right now where you know, coaching staff,
organization and players all feel pretty good about where we're going.

Speaker 4 (17:26):
All right, A couple of things here. He said.

Speaker 3 (17:31):
Last year he figured things out a little easier, this
year not so much.

Speaker 4 (17:36):
Why wow?

Speaker 3 (17:37):
Why do you think that is just from an offensive
in the NFL standpoint? Defenses are making better adjustments against him.

Speaker 4 (17:44):
I would say that's the top of the schedule they
face better. Do you think that's That's a big part
of it is well, okay, And the third part of
it is maybe you didn't think that somebody was going
to figure out. You know, football is an adjustment every
series that you maybe you thought after last year's success
that you were two steps ahead of the curve instead
of one. So now when you realize you're only one step,

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and then this year hits maybe you didn't prepare enough.
I'm not saying they didn't study hard and all those things,
but prepare enough for the what if? What if? You know,
going into an off seas, they're going to adjust. But
when you had six okay, if you had a certain
stance today and you're hitting and it's flawed, but it's successful,

(18:30):
and then somebody figures out that flaw and and I'm
talking about, seize that ribcage and it's beaten on the
rib cage the whole time. You got two choices, buddy.
You can either get beat to a pulp or you're
gonna have to. And then you finally realize with the
hitting instructor, you're like you watched the little video of yourself,

(18:52):
you know of Oh I got away with this last year.
Now they're busting me on the hands and I can't
quite barrel it up because I can't get my I
can't get my hands out in front of the you
know what, I'm yeah, and so high fastballs are getting.
So what do you do? Then you got to make
your adjustment. And I think it's I think it's a
fair what Bobby said. Last year, it felt like I
probably adjusted quicker, but there's felt like a bigger gap

(19:15):
between the defenses in this offense. The way they approached it,
they were just they had some free runs and their
quarterback was and then you have taken account what what
if the line's not as good? What if there's so
many factors that comes into play calling. Now, if you're
just a dumb ass and on third and seventeen you
call inside zone to a fullback twelve times, I should
probably replace it. That's not him. You get the point.
So it is, there's tears. Look at the schedule. I

(19:39):
mean it's different. I mean it just is. And some
teams like Baltimore Baltimore's will play like the ten twelve
teams that are above five hundred and beat and they
and they play great football against them, and then some
teams don't. So I think it's a third year. If
you're if you're evaluating now, where do we go from here?
Then I think next year is a moving It's like

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Saturday in AUGUSTA. Okay, first two rounds you're just trying
to feel the course out. Man, I'm hit. I had
to a job, and you could have played the course
twenty five times and then finally you're hitting balls, and
it's like, man, I don't know why. What's the stimpmeter
on the green? It's rolling faster than it even did
last year. What do you adjust?

Speaker 5 (20:13):
Well?

Speaker 4 (20:14):
Dam then you start to well, if I don't want
to hit it as hard, I gotta have distance control.
And then all of a sudden you start short arming
at what now your actors are so far that you're
three ptting all these greens. I know that the analogy
you get my pipe is that you can be experienced
there and still everything doesn't come into play ball striking,
may you don't count for weather. It's the same thing here, defenses, personnel, schedule,

(20:37):
all those things. And it just feels, as he said,
the adjustments haven't happened as quickly. And it's not just
him that has to adjust, it's the players and everything.
So I think Bryan is a valid point of schedule.
And did they figure I don't think you ever figure
anybody out, because just as quickly stra out what happens
if they go win this week in the charge state, Man,
they hadn't done that to us. We haven't seen that

(20:58):
this year. Well then you made the vestment. So but
at this stage's game, like I said, it's survival. You
know who each team is. The question is it comes
down to the deal ability to deal with pressure as
a player and a coach and you play calling in
your execution and is my guy's better than yours. Yeah,
I've had those days where I was better than the
guy by a long shot. And I've had those days

(21:19):
where I thought I was better than the guy and
he was having his day. And then I've had those days.
Was like, I prepared for this. Why is it such
a struggle survival modement? And they'll be survival mode in
this game is will no matter how pretty it may
look or ugly, got to survive it. And if you
can survive it, to get when you're playing pretty and
they unfortunately haven't been able to turn that adjustment into it.

(21:41):
Put it this way, the adjustment's been less urgent than you.
And I'd like, yeah, that's that.

Speaker 3 (21:46):
Yeah, That's the frustrating part is I feel like at
times there's no there's no sense of urgency like at all, which.

Speaker 4 (21:54):
Leads which means me back is there are a lot of
overthinking going on because of this, And you know how
that is when your minds you got hitters, can they
hit when they're thinking about a video game, you know,
you know, I mean even a kid. When we're thinking
about something else. It's hard to say, Hell, go to
a movie and start letting your mind wander about the
what you got to do at work?

Speaker 1 (22:11):
Work?

Speaker 4 (22:11):
Yeah, by the time ten minutes will go by on
the movie and you say, what did I miss? Yeah,
exactly saying. Doesn't it hold true on a football field,
we expect everything to go perfect. Damn, I got news
for you. There's very few times I've never seen the
perfect game, and I sure as hell have never been
out on a perfect practice. Well, Sean, what if you
went twelve for twelve in practice? Well, the ball that
I threw to the flat and hit and practice the

(22:33):
post was the guy hit was fifteen yards open. I
didn't read the coverage. I played it too safe, so
I completed the ball, but the big win was there.
So in my mind, you're really eleven for twelve because
you missed what you should have if you'd read it
out right. Same thing here you can, so I don't
see perfect So it's not executing to perfection, it's executing
to If I can shoot for perfection but get excellence,

(22:54):
you'll win a lot of games. Yeah, and look at
the teams that do it. There's the Chansie Chiefs have
been far from perfect offensive, far from its matter of
fact to the point at times pedestrian yet fifteen and
and the tight end and Andy Reid. But but they
they have they they're the perfect team for saying, Okay,
the stake's not cook the way we want it, what

(23:14):
are you gonna do. You're gonna eat it or you're
just gonna let it sit there and waste it. Well, okay,
well we'll go well done. We don't want it, but
I'm gonna we'll get this done and survive another series.
And they do it better than anybody, because nobody's been
uglier good than them this year. Right, offensively, no, and
they're fifteen and frigging two probably, and would have been
sixteen and one more than likely if they'd have had
their guys, but more bo Nix looked like he wasn't

(23:35):
gonna let them go fifteen to sixteen and one regardless,
But they didn't play their guys, so could have been
a different resultant. Seven two five seven nineties the number
to join.

Speaker 3 (23:43):
We'll continue to talk about the Texans and Chargers matchup,
which is just a couple of days away. How does
the organization feel about the offense for the Texans.

Speaker 2 (23:52):
That's next, The Shawn Salisbury Show continued, Let's get out
to the phone lines.

Speaker 4 (24:01):
Steve, appreciate you holding.

Speaker 8 (24:02):
Good morning, Good morning guys. Can y'all hear me?

Speaker 4 (24:05):
Yes, sir, we got you.

Speaker 8 (24:06):
You know, I'm what I'm saying. What I'm fixing the
say might be controversial, but I'm just gonna kind of
lay it out there. You know, I love tomikle Ryan
I do. I think he's probably going to be one
of the best coaches that we've ever had on the Texans.
The problem that I have with him is this offensive
line is directly his fault. And the reason I say

(24:30):
that is is, you know, I watched the Texans when
they first came in the league and we had David Carr.
Obviously he wasn't doesn't have the talent that CJ. But
he was on his back way more than he was
on his feet. And I'm starting to see this with
with with CJ. Now I understand Bobby Slocum. I mean,

(24:50):
I had some of the plays that he runs, is like,
what are you doing? But you know, in a perfect
world and a perfect scenario, the plays that he's running
should work. But when you're as soon as the ball
is snapped and this offensive line just kind of just wilts.
I mean you you really can't blame that on Bobby Slowick. Now,
some of the screens and stuff. I understand what he's

(25:12):
trying to do. Get a little get you know, get
the ball out a little faster. But I mean this
offensive line is a direct to to Dimiko Ryan. Now
another thing is is I mean he lost Nko for
what three weeks? This is the second season he's lost Bell.

Speaker 6 (25:31):
Dell.

Speaker 8 (25:33):
We're along with the offensive line that's terrible. I mean,
let's just face it. This offensive line is terrible. The
only reason we made the playoffs is because we're in
a division that is horrible. Any other division, we wouldn't
have made the we wouldn't have made the playoffs. So
number one in the draft, we need to we have
to start worrying about this offensive line. I'm hoping. I'm

(25:55):
a I'm a I'm not a I'm not a fan
that goes, oh God, I hope they win. I don't
think they're going to get by the Chargers because the
Chargers have an offensive defensive line that's unbelievable. Now hang
up and listen. I know you guys, it's a little
late for Happy New Year, but happy new Year.

Speaker 4 (26:10):
Take care, thanks Steve, Happy new Year. To turn this off.
There you go, my bad. I think a lot of
people I always like to keep it off with that.
You know, you want to make sure it's almost like
we're in the car. You don't want to people background noise.
I want to listen before I put it back on.
I I think a lot of people feel like Steve does.
I do. I think they like the team and think

(26:33):
there's some pieces that are great, but we all also
looking for who we're supposed to blame, right, not just Steve.
We all do like is that this guy's fault, you know,
and there's never it's never just And I get what
Steve saying, but it's not just a Miko Ryan's fault.
But you do hire the you are the head coach,
so you bear responsibility for you know, the good and

(26:54):
the bad. But I think that we a lot of
us feel this way because going in our expectations were
so high. Let me I get what I do all
want from our listeners today and I'm being serious about this.
It's not like, oh, what would you do? You clown?
You guys? Are you know who? You guys sitting in
your living room. We're all sitting our living room thumbing

(27:14):
our nuts and wondering, Hey, hey, I can do better
than him. I don't mean it like this. I honestly
I want to put the coordinator play sheet in front
of our fans, and I want I do when you
call in, maybe if you're if you're discontent with what
they're doing offensively or defense, I don't care, tell me

(27:35):
what's missing? Forget, forget who's to blame? Right Worse, listen,
nobody's getting fired between now and tomorrow or Saturday, so
we'll get to the who's to blame on the seasons though?
Fair enough, Okay, gotta replace this game. I'm just curious.
Let's let's try to solve something right now. And I
like to delve into the intelligence of our listeners, because
we've got a lot of them, very smart. Learn a

(27:56):
lot from them. But when when you when when you say, Okay,
this offensive line sucks, how are you fixing it? I'm
being serious. We all have our opinions, so let's I
would like to say, Okay, I'm giving you the play sheet.
What do you need more over less of it? I
want you to be specific. I'm talking about everybody when
you call in. So because it is a hard gig

(28:18):
and you do call plays, you say this worked on
the practice field every single time we ran it against
eight different defenses that we put on the card. Now, okay,
you decide to face TJ. Watt, he might have something
to say or in this case this week, Khalil Mack
and Bosa. They look a little different than maybe our
scout team edge Rusher point is is that every play

(28:41):
is designed to work. Now there is that thing where
guys are play a play offensive play defensive offense, where
they're afraid to do. Our defense is good enough, Let's
just keep it close. We'll win in the end. There
are that is thinking and whether it's there thinking or not,
but it's easy to especially in the playoffs when you're
trying to be cute and protect everything because you want

(29:02):
to move on. You forget what got you there or
what got wins from you was the aggressive, get after it,
cut it loose, which gets you hired with all the
things that did it, and you will face you know
the tough times going through it during a game, but
I do want to what is the instead of what's
the blame, which we will all have that opinion. What's

(29:22):
to fix? How do you fix it? How do you
fix a shallow cross so that hits a guy in
the chest and he drops it? How do you t
how do you fix this week? If t if CJ.
Stroud decides to bail a little early because the pass
rush in the first quarter bothered him, is it on
the pass rushers on him because they've lost trust somehow
how do you get you know what I'm saying? How

(29:43):
do you get Bobby slog to say? Because I know this,
we all do it? Third and two, hand it to
mix it? You handed to mix it. You don't get
the first down? What's the first thing? People say? Why
didn't you throw it? Play action? To mix it and
throw it? Now? The opposite is true. Third and three
you drop back.

Speaker 6 (29:58):
Now.

Speaker 4 (29:58):
I've never understood on four, fourth and one at midfield
why anybody throws a go route that's so lower percentage
of lands out of bounds. Get me the first down,
first out, now, Listen. I like touchdowns, they're better than
first downs, but first downs. Keep it going to give
me an opportunity to score a touchdown. If it's not
there and it's wide open, throw the ball, get the
first down, and we'll keep moving. I've never understood a

(30:19):
fade throwing contest on fourth and one against the best
corner in the league and the ball lands out of bounds,
and you wonder, well you didn't get it was a
one person read. Now, if it's the only thing, there's
two seconds left, got to take a shot. I get it.
But what am I doing at the forty yard line
throwing go routes on fourth and one? When I need
the first down, then I'll throw the go route on
second down or on first down, unless, of course, somebody

(30:39):
falls down throw to them. Aggressive Center's a fine line.
So I just for me, Brian, and we all have
a we all have a complaint. Steve makes some great points,
but I also know that let's help him fix it.
I'm not there, not going to change our game plan
for us. But my point is our thought process. How
do you get a victory this week? What is your
game plan? If you know what the Chargers do, and

(31:01):
if you've watched any tape on them, how would you
attack them. Well, I'm not an expert at it, no doubt,
none of us are doing that. None of us are
experts at it right now. But at least it's an opinion.
So if we have an opinion on something should be done,
our listeners are wise enough and smart enough to tell us. Okay,
if what would be done, don't tell me about all
the problems, how rough the waters?

Speaker 6 (31:20):
Now?

Speaker 4 (31:20):
Now bring the ship and fix it for me? So
what is it that you don't like? But how are
we fixing it?

Speaker 6 (31:26):
So?

Speaker 4 (31:26):
What do we got to do different to win this game?
And that's all I care And then we'll put the
game plan in next week. So then all the evaluation
of should we replace guys on the staff And we
know it's not easy, but that's why they get paid
the big money. They got to make it look easier.
And the question is can you make the ordinary look
that easy in a playoff game?

Speaker 3 (31:43):
I think more people feel like stay Steve agreed than
on the other side of it. Oh, there's no more optimistic,
there's no doubt, there is no doubt. And we hit
it a little bit on it yesterday about like where's
the excitement factor?

Speaker 4 (31:55):
I mean, it's Thursday right.

Speaker 3 (31:58):
So I'm curious to see how the fan base is today,
and I'm just judging off of social media. Like I
can remember in years past, like last year, people were
amped for that for that first playoff game, you know,
against the Browns, but people were still a little nervous
Joe Flacco. The Browns are playing outside of their minds
right on a winning streak, you know. This year, it's like,

(32:18):
all right, this could be one and done.

Speaker 4 (32:20):
Man. I think the fans are gonna show me point
of this, show me who you are in the postseason,
and then I'll get my They're gonna watch. It'll be
excited in the place, will be filled. But there's this
feeling of I can't let too much out because I'm
setting myself up for emotional disappointment. I really listened the
emotional part. For me, I'm gonna go for all. I'm

(32:40):
all in all the time. If they lose in sixty minutes,
and I'll shift my paradigms to the rest of the
playoff football and say we'll see you next year. What
do we do to get better? What do you mean
You're not gonna it's not gonna run your weekend? No
what No football teams is something something that I don't
that I'm not on their payroll, don't have a say
in calling plays, right, catcher throwing. I don't let twenty
five year old dream my week and considering I'm not coaching.

(33:02):
If I was coaching him, we lost and I'm going
to the off season, I wouldn't be wouldn't be normal
till mid February. I am man, but I'm but I
also because there see being a fan and a fanatic.

Speaker 3 (33:15):
I'm still I'm still upset the Astros got swept in
the wild cards.

Speaker 4 (33:18):
Already passed that. Brother, I'm just I barely get through
my days. Man, I'm a I'm a windshield, not a
rear view. Nice you look forward looking? Yeah, because are
closer than they appear in Yeah. Guess what I yeah,
I guess what I'm not gonna do on Saturday. I'm
not making one throw true or making one tackle.

Speaker 9 (33:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (33:38):
There's some fans out there that will make a couple
of throws remotes into the TV.

Speaker 4 (33:41):
When God bless them for being great fans. Then you've
got to go replace the TV right, Yeah, yeah, Jacks
TV over. It's like breaking a club with your golfing.
It feels good. Good, it feels good. But then you say, hell,
now it's cost much to reshafted, and instead just take
the ball you missed your four, putt it on, throw
out the water, or just drop a couple of box yeah,

(34:03):
and water to take to drink a beer. Drink a beer,
a beer, yell at your buddy, and then get the
card and move get to the next t box.

Speaker 3 (34:10):
There is something to say about snapping a club though.
I've done it twice with an F bomb mixed. Oh yeah,
over your your neck.

Speaker 4 (34:17):
Yeah, inevitably though you stap it over your neck and
then the scraping part cuts the back of your neck
and three stitches and then you're definitely a check.

Speaker 3 (34:25):
Let's continue this discussion about the Houston text and seven
one three two one two five seven ninety is also
the number to join the organization. How do they feel
about the offense? Got to get to that next. I
got a good quote right here in front of me.

Speaker 4 (34:36):
That's next.

Speaker 1 (34:39):
Putting the logic illogical.

Speaker 2 (34:43):
Former John Salisbury continues to break it down.

Speaker 4 (34:49):
Tweaker. Yeah, was he a rapper? Uh yeah, he put
out a wrap album, key collab anybody no, just him?
He dropped it. Yeah, waity to drop. I don't even
know when it drops. But excuse me, it's taken Spotify
by storm. It really is, like it's pretty popular. Listen

(35:09):
to it yesterday for the first time. Man, not bad.
Actually it's not bad. You don't even you never even
heard it. No, I just like what you're saying. Oh,
I don't have any idea. I mean when I think
of one of the Ball brothers doesn't exactly come to
my on my Bengo card.

Speaker 3 (35:26):
Well, you know you can add it to your golf
playlist because you're gonna be listening to dub Baby like
we went over yesterday, and then you can add Tweaker
by le Angelo Ball.

Speaker 4 (35:34):
Yeah. Yeah, that's what I'm gonna be doing. You gotta
go Tweaker by Angela ball Angelo or le Angelo Angelo,
and you got le Angelo, you got Lamello, and you
got LeVar Lonzoono. Yeah they call him Jello. Yeah that's it.

Speaker 5 (35:56):
I know.

Speaker 4 (35:56):
LaVar Ball exploded for like six one time. You sure did, man,
no doubt. What a dog bro seven five seven I
is number to join Travis. Good morning, Good.

Speaker 10 (36:08):
Morning, phillis crazy. Don't do it. Don't worry about the
Angelo Ball. Yeah, yes, yeah, it's horrible.

Speaker 4 (36:22):
There you go.

Speaker 10 (36:26):
It's like some two thousands, early two thousand party wraps
sight deal.

Speaker 11 (36:32):
It's horrible, man, that's what makes it.

Speaker 3 (36:34):
That's what makes it a banger. Man early two thousands rated.

Speaker 10 (36:41):
I just see bagagees and over sigh teachers.

Speaker 4 (36:44):
Oh yeah, headband on, Oh yeah. In his case, it's
a banger, meaning take a sledgehammer to his album and
say move on, dude.

Speaker 10 (36:53):
Man, horrible, horrible, But hey listen, phillm be quick man
about the tax man, I to us saying earlier, so
how can we fix it? Listen, listen to a whole
lot of the Trocs. Now you can do about that.
The thing I can see them doing. Man, they got
to get away from no more slowly, cannot have no
more intermediate deep pass, no more twelve fifteen yards. You

(37:17):
just don't have the whole line. You're not gonna have
the time for that. You gotta go quick in, quick out,
quick hitches man up to quick, quick up the scene,
Joe mixing more in the past game. You can't and
see this stry out to use his legs. You gotta
get him on the rollouts and the quick boots he got.
He gonna if the first two reasons I there. He

(37:37):
gotta take out. He can't sit there and wait for
no pass. Another thing too our. I'll probably go to
daunts and shows and tell him, hey, man, this I
need a month to game from you. I need you
to no more catching the ball, be in a position
type receiver. When you're catching the ball out one tap.

(37:58):
He he has to get you fighting for instyall. You
gotta make extra yall account. That's the type of stuff
you can do right now.

Speaker 4 (38:04):
Man.

Speaker 10 (38:04):
But but next year with the Texans man uh old
line wise, I don't know if it's the old line coach.
They have no identity.

Speaker 9 (38:11):
Man.

Speaker 10 (38:12):
First of all, they gotta get an identity. They have
no identity. They gotta get some good veteran prisons in there.
Larry mit Tomso is a highly paid left tackle. But
but he's there, you know what I'm saying, to do
his job. He's not a guy you're supposed to be. Look,
he's not a guy that want to be looked looked
to as a leader. He just don't want to take

(38:33):
on that type of role. You gotta get some guys
know that you gotta get you a good veteran prisionent
on that old line. I'm glad they want to be
a young but they just gotta get some guys that
want to come in there and be leaders, change the mindset.
Maybe the old line coach, I don't know the guy,

(38:53):
but maybe he gotta get meaner, he gotta get tough.
But they gotta get an identity for they have no identity.
They're just rolling out every week going just you know,
it's up in the air. And that's all I got
for you, fellas.

Speaker 4 (39:06):
Appreciate you, Travis. It makes sense, It makes There's a
lot of things and the truth is you can get
a bunch of early completions with just simple throws. Get
it out the launch point. I say it a lot
with pocket passers. The launch point to change it is
so important if you let guys, if your snap count
launch point are the same all the time, they'll feast.
You got to move him, and Stroud does move and

(39:29):
put the ball. He throws the ball pretty accurately off
especially moving to his writers. I honestly think you have to.
You have to do some innovative things with moving things around,
and maybe it's time to do something you're not used
to doing to get out of the comfort zone. Comfort
zones usually don't win championship. And you've got to be
able to challenge the the stuff that you're normally doing.

(39:52):
But you still got to be able to execute your
base stuff. If you can't, you won't win that either.
But and then you don't want to get too gimmicky.
So listen. The physical team. Whoever wins a physical battle
and the turnover battle wins this game. I don't know
who it's going to be, but I know damn well
that in the playoffs the intensity rises, whether you think
it does or not. There's a different pressure, and the
execution of it makes it a little more difficult. There'll

(40:14):
be no weather excuses, none of it. You just got
to You can't let the last seventeen games of the
inconsistency carry you into the playoffs. You don't let the
preseason carry you to the regular season. So you sure
as hell can't let it do this now. If you're
executing everything to perfection like Baltimore is, run it. But
they'll continue to expand their offense in this playoffs. They
just will expand it. You got to make it look

(40:36):
difficult to the defense and simple to you and execute
what you do and no need to borrow and chase
trouble man, just get after it. And but they've been
borrowing trouble all season. They've got to be aggressive and
they got to get out of their own way too,
especially with pre snap penalties.

Speaker 3 (40:49):
Let's talk about the Chargers defense and what kind of
challenges they will show the Texans, especially on that O line.
Let's talk about it next in sport Stock seven to eighty.

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It's the final day for negotiation before arbitration for Major
League Baseball teams. Of course, he Astro's got a couple
of guys that they need to get uh negotiated before
that arbitration hits Texans Chargers This Saturday, got the college
football payoff Semifinals Tonight it's the Orange Bowl Penn State
Notre Dame seven one three two two five seven nineties
number to join Talking Texans. Quick Fixes for the offense,

(43:50):
Doctor Miles Miles, Good morning morning. How's it going, gents,
we're good, buddy. What's on your mind?

Speaker 9 (43:57):
Well, this is my first time calling in, but I'm
also a season ticket member, and i'm so i'm when
I'm watching the games. There's honestly some simple things that
can be done. One of them which is a predictability,
uh on play call in and if I'm sitting out
in the bleachers, I know this play is coming because
you know certain people and positions. You know.

Speaker 4 (44:18):
If I know it, I know that the other.

Speaker 9 (44:20):
Teams know us. So for a case in point is
whenever number thirty three, I think it's a goomble when
he comes in, it's gonna be passed. If they take
a mixing out and a goomle walle come in, it's
a pass.

Speaker 10 (44:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (44:31):
I mean it's almost every single time the offensive line wise,
they're getting trucked over. I mean when when you see him,
they some of them don't even know who they're supposed
to be blocking. So my fix would be one, if
we're struggling already on the offensive line, which we have been,

(44:51):
and focused on all the block all right. If they're
doing great in practice, okay, great, but then the times
game day they're falling short, well then you might want
to go ahead and have them got a little bit
of a short lease and kind of rotate some folks out,
put a little pressure on them. Maybe you might find something,
I would say, trying to help on a double team,
but they keep missing double team as well. There's just
a lot of small items attention to detail wise they're

(45:14):
not doing. I mean, you can you can tell the
players they are called. You got to stop calling all
these plays where the wide receivers catch the ball behind
the line of scrimmage because they keep getting stopped unless
we have Tank Dell. And even when Tankdlle did it,
we would still get stopped sometimes. But he could you know,
he had enough quickness and Chillian speed to get around.
But we keep throwing it behind the line of scrimmage
and can't do anything. And see that it is to

(45:35):
the point now where you know he didn't You can
tell he didn't trust off the line because he's starting
to hear footsteps from dark. He trying to get rid
of that ball as quickly as possible because he didn't
trust this the guys in front and block them.

Speaker 4 (45:45):
In my opinion, of course, thank you Miles here right
there from a season ticket holder, watch you can tell
he watches a lot of football, and yep, now all
those things. At times you do need to throw the
ball behind the line of scrimmage because you dialed it
up to work and help the screen game works. At
times you do have to push the ball down the
field and and tendencies are a problem. And I don't know,

(46:10):
say to me, mixing is a three down back, and
I would he'd be he first adjustment I make. I'd
try to create mismatches. He'd be heavy in the past
game this week, he just would. I said it on
earlier in the week. I fully would expect it. But
I get where Miles is coming from. I wish the
fix was that easy. But I mean, you roll through

(46:30):
it and you think, okay, this, this, this and this,
But you can't just drop back five and a hitch
and throw dig routes, go routes, comebacks. There's going to
have to be you know, you've got to mix in
the slant game where Nico Collins is a big winner
on that. You got to just do it and put
players in position. But you can't. You can't get rid
of everything and just be a one dimensional team. But
Miles is right, Tendencies become a problem and if tendency shoved. Now,

(46:54):
I don't know what the statistic is that when a
goombalale's in the game and he did there thrown. I'd
be interested to see where that percentage is not necessarily
to him, But are you dropping back every time he's
in the game, then then those tendencies are probably gonna
have to change. I'm sure there's a number in their
metrics that'd say so, right. I don't have that number.

(47:15):
I don't either, I don't even know where to find that.

Speaker 3 (47:17):
But I have noticed on a lot of third downs,
especially third downs, and like eights and nines, a goomble
walle does come into the game regularly.

Speaker 4 (47:24):
That's predictability. Oh yeah, when he comes in, whether it's
you like him, the versatility of him more. But Joe
Mixon is very good coming out of back right, So
if it's a chance, if he needs a break, if
he's so whatever it is. But tendencies have to be broken,
and you have to have the guts to break tendencies
under pressure circumstances, which we always lean on a crutch. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (47:46):
Bobby Sloan, the offensive coordator for the Texans, talked about
the challenges that the Chargers defense will present to their offense.

Speaker 4 (47:54):
This is the offensive coordinator on the Chargers defense.

Speaker 12 (47:57):
Wuch about how.

Speaker 7 (47:58):
This tree, you know, you could kind of see I
call it the Baltimore tree. But people that have been
in Baltimore recently and kind of where that comes from.
That style where there's a lot of split safety hold
and they usually try to disguise it make it really
hard for the quarterback, and when they do show middlefield
close usually it winds up be in some form of
split safety post snap, and they do a really good

(48:19):
job making it where you can't get a beat on
what they're doing before the ball snapped, and then they
mix that in with pressure and a lot of offsets.
I will say, like, I think this defense is a
little different than some of the other teams from that
tree are, but I mean they do a really good
job keeping things in front of them and making sure
that they don't give up explosives. So you know, that's

(48:40):
what we think one of our strengths are and one
of their strengths is not letting that happen. And our
job is to find a way to still be able
to get those while staying on track because I mean,
I think I want to say that, I could be wrong.
I think they're second. I know they're top five in
least explosives given up like that, that's one of the
good things they do.

Speaker 4 (49:00):
Okay, let me Uh, that's Bobby Slow talking about pre
snap and disguising and in the NFL they disguise a lot.
In high school you get coverage, it's usually the coverage
you see pre snap college at times NFL. And Jesse
Mentor has been with the Baltimore and been with Harba
in the past, and he's, uh, if you remember, his

(49:23):
dad was a head coaching VERUS Cincinnati. Dad's been a
defensive coordinator. So he comes from Football Tree and at
Baltimore Tree, there's no doubt there's aggressive and what he's
saying when he talks about split safety. So when you
hear that, we just kind of go through it, just
an explanation of what he's talking about. As a quarterback,
when you come out, the first thing do you locate
when you break that huddle? Find locate safeties. They're gonna

(49:45):
tell you, not the corners. You'll you'll scan left or
right if that's what you do defense, but you check
out how the front is boom find locate safety. So
safeties are going to tell me where rotation is. If
they rotate an extra guy down right, why wouldn't I
want to throw left right? I'm talking about so people
understand the basics of how you approach it from a
quarterback standpoint. So when you line up and they're too

(50:06):
high safeties, split safeties, two high safeties, that's roll corners.
What that coverage does, whether it's two man two zone
where two zone at the top, the five underneath, the
running in two man or two zone, or you end
up dropping the corners black and put back and playing quarters.
They show two and they drop back and they got
quarter quarter quarter quarter, and then it's you can work

(50:26):
the outside lanes and underneath, but the disguise and when
you go from too high to single middle of the
field close, there's a safety even between the hash marks.
You don't want to run stuff in between the hash marks,
at least at him. You want to run seams, the
all verts where you put him in a conflict bind.
Seems you want to you know you can get posts,

(50:46):
you can do you're running posts dig You're trying to
put him in a bind. Do I jump into it.
But when you disguise what Cover two enrolled corners and
split safeties do, it allows you to get help over
the top and prevent the home run they're taking. They're
they're begging you to say, I'm gonna play It's what
Monte Kiffin. It's some similarities to it, but Cover two
is what Monte Kiffin's Tampa defense did. Everything keep in

(51:08):
front of you, tackle and let's go play football. And
they just they're not going to give you the home run.
Now when they go single high safety and what he said, Now,
this is hard to do as a quarterback. You come
up and they say middle of the field is closed,
single high safety, which means another safety is down near
the box or hovering in this hook curl flat range.
And then all of a sudden they're running a guy
to split safeties from a single high safety. Look once

(51:30):
in the way you see a single high safety with
a strong safety, you know, ten yards off the line
of scrimmage, eight yards removed to the width. You're thinking,
they're not getting it too high with this, and if
the snap of the ball they're sprinting to too high,
inverted too high and go or they'll run the safety
to the corner and take the corner and run him
back to the half field. So they're inverting and switching

(51:52):
on you. And if they go from two to single high,
single high to two, that's hard to do for a quarterback.
Ball snapped boom, oh, single high safety, you're going to
your single high ree and you're running a bender. You
don't want to throw a bender into a single high safety.
You want to throw a bender in a middlefield open
split safeties say do a great job in their safeties.
As we know, Hamilton's as good as there is in
all of football. So the disguise on a young quarterback

(52:16):
because you're so concerned about it, can take you up
out of a lot of stuff. That's why we go
pre snap, post snap reads. That's why your eyes have
to before and if you're in the gun, you're taking
your eyes off coverage to catch the ball. All those
things having to play. But you have to a lot
of guys get so comfortable read pre snap, wance the ball,
snap down and playing. But what if they rotate single

(52:37):
high end might read completely changes from middlefield closed and
middlefield open completely changes. I can't throw a flat route
in a corner roll situation, or it's an interception for
a touchdown. I can't throw a bender or a middle
of the field closed and a guy sitting right in
the middle of the field. You've seen it, guys said,
would you see? So you have to have post snap.
They test your patience and then when you get tired

(53:00):
of throwing the stuff underneath because they test you and
testing and testing, then you know what you do. You
take a shot and you throw it to a too
high safety and he's send it over the top for
a pick or just when you think it's zone, they'll
bring somebody. Talking about the Baltimore look, they'll bring somebody
and the Chargers do the same thing that Baltimore look
when Hamilton and that's where Mentor is from Michigan and

(53:20):
Baltimore brought it. Now you've got to Derwin James, who
just like Hamilton active the Skies. They will in and
Mentor is gonna and it's a little different, like he said,
but they're gonna do a lot of different things because
you have the versatility of a great safety that can
play linebacker, that can cover, and he's big enough to
tackle you and can cover in space. So they will run.
You saw I showed you the video the other days,

(53:43):
back back back and then boom comes off. They cover
up the slot and he comes on a kind of
an A B gap blitz from wide comes and sacks
quarterback matter of fact, force to turnover and took it
to the house. So the point is that this thing,
and the reason I'm using Hamilton is the Drway Jay.
There's a lot of similarities ones younger ones, but both
active and so they can create a lot of pre

(54:06):
snap post snap problems. And the Chargers are doing well
and jesse mentor young and aggressive, but they're smart. They're
not going to all and the Chargers are at the
top of the league in lack of explosives, and Baltimore
will be too. They just don't give them up. And
that's who you're going to face. You saw it with
Baltimore here the other couple weeks ago. You're going to

(54:27):
see it Charges and the Chargers. Then the problem is
the reason they can do that. They trust that they're
four guys can get pressure without blitzing. And when then
just when you think they're rushing four, they bring a
fifth and you got nobody for you.

Speaker 3 (54:38):
That's going to be the big thing is house. The
offensive only gonna pick up those blitz packages.

Speaker 4 (54:41):
So exactly right. Well, that's when he said when he
says millfield close and too high split safeties, that's open
and closed, and every quarterback should start with that is
the midfield open and close. That tells me where I'm
starting with my read. Simple. So when you're at home
and you see two split safeties, keep your eye on
the pre snap post snap on your TV screen. If
they show you a replay, and you'll whoa that disguise.

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Speaker 1 (56:51):
All right, Sean, what are you hearing out there now?
The Salisbury stakeouts? Salsburyef takeout on the Shawn sell Free Show.

Speaker 3 (57:01):
It's time for the stake out here on the Seawn
Salisbury Show, Sean Brown and Tripoli, let's get right to it. Oh,
it's our favorite favorite sound bite, Sean. We haven't heard
one in a while, but here it is.

Speaker 4 (57:18):
This is.

Speaker 3 (57:20):
Your guy, Rusty Wilson. This is him to his one
of his lineman, Cam Hayward, after they lost their fourth straight.
This is literally on the field, helmets still on. Here's
Russ Wilson.

Speaker 5 (57:36):
Day.

Speaker 4 (57:37):
Hey, let's go win the last four? All right, look
at me, let's go. We can do it. You know
I'm fair helped out now you feel me let's go
win the last four meaning wild card Divisional championship game
and then the Super Bowl. Is that what he's saying?
Let me double check this. That is that recent this

(57:57):
past week? Yeah? I mean no, this is this was
a the Browns.

Speaker 3 (58:00):
So I think if I'm not mistaken, let me just
double check real quick.

Speaker 4 (58:05):
Okay. So this was had to be in like late
November early December then, and they had four more games
in the regular season. This was, yeah, late November. Well,
they haven't late November because they lost four or five
in a row. We lost four in a row. Okay,
so the whole month of December wasn't good to them.
So apparently Cam Hayward didn't listen. Yeah, mister voter, I'm

(58:27):
surprised we did. Hear Cam say, well, rust will will
if you play better, you know, for a guy who
started out on the bench got the job, and it
looked as if rus Wilson was going to be like
one of the like what a comeback for him? Pgh.
And now you're at a point where you're like, how
long is the leash in the playoff game? What if
he comes out and place poorly? Are you gonna switch

(58:50):
if he's if he listened. Oh no, sorry, this was
this was his past Saturday. That's what I thought. Yeah,
that's what I'm saying when he said the next four,
he's talking about, we lost, we're still in the playoffs. Yeah,
he's got wild card vision. Sorry, the AFC Championship Game,
the Super Bowl, that's the four that he was talking about.

Speaker 3 (59:04):
The opposing team was wearing orange. I thought it was
the Browns and they had lost and then they went
on the four. Yeah, this was Saturday after they lost
at the Bengals.

Speaker 4 (59:10):
There you go. Yeah, so he wants to win the
three playoff games in the Super Bowl. Yeah, and at
this point in time, then if you're cam marriage saying, no,
I get you, but it would help if you'd actually
you have the offense getting the ends on cams on defense,
don't worry about them. Yeah, they're doing just fine on defense.
Are you doing anything on offense? And there they haven't been.
They're the worst of the fourteen teams on offense. You

(59:31):
trust the least. Now, Russ Wilson wants to pull win
the next four. You're running into the wrong team to
play average football this week, buddy, I know that you've
beat him. What eight of the last ten times. This
is a little bit different. And I just wonder what
Mike Tomlin's leash will be if Russ Wilson comes out
and is yanking it into the ground and they're down

(59:52):
fourteen to nothing in the first quarter and there's two sacks. Ye,
that may be the time where field's legs got to
come into play and you've got to make to switch.
I will not be shocked if they get down. If
you see two quarterbacks in this game, Russ Wilson's got
to play better because their offense is reeling this video.

Speaker 3 (01:00:08):
Cam Hayward is mine in his own business, does that
bad body language. He's just trying to get off the field.
And then Russ Wilson comes out of nowhere. Triple He
play that again real quick, just literally out of nowhere.

Speaker 4 (01:00:19):
Hey hey, let's win the last four? All right, look
at me, let's come. We can do it. You know
I'm fair, no doubt now, yep, you feel me. Let's
go win the last four.

Speaker 3 (01:00:28):
Don't doubt now, Cam Heywards, just like bro Dotted, I'm
just trying to go out the field.

Speaker 4 (01:00:33):
Man on game literally just said it. I may be wrong,
but for a while russ Wilson's like motivational speeches feels
so canned and so forced. They're so forced. It almost
feels like he needed to get Cam Hayward on his
side because Mike Tom, I'm gonna sit your ass down.

(01:00:54):
If you know, like, hey, if you feel me, you
feel me? I feel you? Hear what he said? Though,
you feel me? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:00:58):
When you when you watch this video, it's almost as
if russ Wilson knew the camera guy was behind him
following him.

Speaker 4 (01:01:03):
That's what I took it out. What do you mean almost?

Speaker 3 (01:01:06):
Yeah, like right there you can fill them, you can
feel it, Yeah, almost, because there's two or three other
linemen that walk by him and he just happens to
pick Cam Hayward who's literally mining his own business.

Speaker 4 (01:01:15):
Do you really think that that was that he had
no idea he knew? Of course, Yeah. I want to
show him still into it. And you know what, if
it's real good and sometimes fake enthusiasm is a good thing.
You gotta fake it sometimes right when you're going through
those times. But that probably after another loss you had
a chance to win the division. You've been getting your
ass kicked offensively. The defense is doing their gig and

(01:01:37):
you can't support them. And then you go to the
your your defensive leader and captain who's been the league
forty years. He's a great player and a great leader,
and say, hey, you feel me. Yeah, that's that's one
of those Hey, Cam, don't turn your He won't talk
about turning back on the team. He's like, Cam, basically,
I want you to believe in me. I'm going to
try to get it done in the divisional and then
the wild card against against the Ravens and see if

(01:01:59):
we can't pull this. So listen, I was really happy
for Russ Wilson's success this year. But if he wants
to be the quarterback of the future or in the
next when I say the future, the immediate future, he
has got to play well in this because right now
you had him going and say, man, all you people
who criticize Russ, and we all said, raise our hand.

Speaker 12 (01:02:18):
Man. He is.

Speaker 4 (01:02:19):
He has done some great things and validated Mike Tomlin
making the decision to start him, not only bring him in,
but to start him over a fields. Well, now people
are like, can we win with him? Yeah? I listen,
it's the Steelers and it's defense, and it's and this
is going to be a blood and guts game.

Speaker 9 (01:02:36):
Brother.

Speaker 4 (01:02:37):
I'm just telling you, these two teams are gonna they
don't like each other and they're gonna physically beat up
on each other. But you're still gonna have to make
some perimeter plays and some big plays in the game
to score. Now, if he plays, great, I guess we'll
go back into it. But the last month, Russ Wilson,
this offense, it's like you want no part. I mean,
everybody wants to play their offense, right, Yeah, everybody wants

(01:02:57):
to play. It's almost as if their defense doesn't get
a strip, sack, fumble in a turnover for a touchdown,
they're not going to be able to muster enough points.
And you're not playing against the team that you get
to make a whole lot of huge plays against. Yeah. Yeah,
it's a tough, tough sled man. It is no doubt,
just as good as the defense has started to play
for Baltimore is as bad as the offensive started to
play for Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh. Yeah, they've been reeling man four

(01:03:18):
straight weeks. Yeah, I don't think the leash is a
four quarter leash. If they were getting rass kicked I
think that justin fields it's going to be cold and
Baltimore stay loose, Yeah, because they may need and I
wouldn't be surprised they add a few, uh just sure
to offset some of that relentless stuff that Baltimore is
going to do to them, and then their defense is
going to be tested because Baltimore's offense playing a bunch

(01:03:39):
of good as anybody in the world.

Speaker 13 (01:03:40):
Right.

Speaker 3 (01:03:40):
Yeah, they play Saturday night. They got the night game
after the Texans on.

Speaker 4 (01:03:44):
That's a game you don't have to root for either team.
You probably if you if you like a fistfight, you'll
want to see that one.

Speaker 10 (01:03:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:03:52):
Yeah, we'll see if the Ravens.

Speaker 3 (01:03:54):
Ravens last what twelve games, I think they're too and
ten against the Steelers.

Speaker 4 (01:03:58):
We'll see if they get two and eight.

Speaker 9 (01:04:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:04:02):
Yeah, the steelerst a stronghold on them. Yeah, I think
that Saturday I think so too. Yeah, especially with way
Lamar Jackson plan. To get back to talking Texans. What
did CJ. Stroud have to say about being an underdog?
We'll discuss an next on Sports Talk seven.

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Speaker 4 (01:05:33):
Sure no you're talking about y'all will be there up
and over. Yam will be there up taking it to
the streets. That's what I'm thinking front. There you go,
That's what I'm thinking of. Mike McDonald, BigDog. Yep, you
know anything about Mike McDonald. Up one, dude.

Speaker 1 (01:05:51):
I grew up.

Speaker 4 (01:05:51):
One of my five favorite groups when I was a child,
LED's Up when always at the top. Doobie Brothers were
in the first five, you know, first five, four in,
first four out their first four in. Yeah. You see
what Cooper flagged the other night. Yeah, he uh he
flagged these nuts on a guy. Yeah, pretty good, man,
that kid's pretty damn good. Pretty good. Yeah, basic white

(01:06:14):
guy too, man. Yeah, well, there's a lot of basic
white guys who can ball. Yeah. We had we had
one here pumping about forty plus and a G leaguer.

Speaker 3 (01:06:23):
Yeah, yeah, reachpherd forty Yeah, alostide of a fifty burger.

Speaker 4 (01:06:28):
He can fIF he can fill it. He probably fifty
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and knock him down.

Speaker 14 (01:06:36):
Man.

Speaker 3 (01:06:37):
Yeah, good for him, there's no doubt. All right, let's
hear from c J. Stroud. He talked about being an
underdog against the Chargers.

Speaker 15 (01:06:43):
Yeah, I mean Nolwise is always gonna be there. You know,
it's always you know, it's part of the sports, always
evident in the sport. And they said the same thing
about us last year, you know, so playing the Browns
and I'm not saying this last year, but you know,
we went out there, we did what we had to
do to win, and that's awesome. What the playoffs come
down to is, you know, it's fourteen teams now, and
you know, the microscope is on you you know, we're

(01:07:05):
the first team to kick it off with the Chargers,
and you know, so everybody has their own pins, which
they're entitled to have those things. So you know, I
really don't mind. I mean, as part of it, you.

Speaker 4 (01:07:14):
Know, guys are smart.

Speaker 15 (01:07:17):
They probably you can see film and see that, you know,
whatever they want to see. So and for us, we
know we have faith in what we can do, and
you know, you know that we're motivated to play with
I kind of like being underdog. I've been underdog a
lot of my life in my career, so it's actually
comfortable for me. So but yeah, I don't really think
too much about it.

Speaker 3 (01:07:36):
Is there any quarterback or any football player, or any
player that's ever said that they're not the underdog. I
feel like every time a player gets asked about the
underdog or underappreciated or anything under they're like, yeah, I've
been the underdog my whole life.

Speaker 4 (01:07:52):
Yeah, well have you, though? You pretty much have been
the tie at the top is dominant quarterback in high scores?
Yet Rancho Cucamonga, Yeah, he I was gonna say Ohio State.
Matter of fact, I'd like to go over his career.
How many games with Ohio State an underdog? Not many?
Probably less than five, like it where he was the

(01:08:13):
dog and underdog. But it's it's you know, you feed
it and sometimes it's something to go listen. They don't
think they're underdogs, but Vegas does. That's all it is.
I mean, they're at home, it's no problem, and I
don't most teams. The points spread has nothing to do
with most teams. They you know, going in, like when
you're getting ready to play somebody who who the world
thinks is the better team. Now, it doesn't mean they're

(01:08:34):
going to be better that day. But you know, I
think most people think the Chargers are a better team,
doesn't mean that that guarantees any victory. So you know,
players gather whatever they can from whatever moves them. I
don't think it's disrespectful that the Chargers are the favorite,
and I don't think he thinks it. It's like like
you said, whatever you see on films, it's okay, But
CJ hasn't been. The time CJ became an underdog is

(01:08:57):
when he when he came here last year on the
three win team. Other than that, everybody's to be pretty good,
highly recruited guys. Wenty a badass basketball player too, play
some hoops too. Yeah, so I don't think you were
that under Whatever it is, it feeds his feeds that
extra bit of energy that you may need. But playoff
football should do that alone, right exactly. It's the playoffs now.

(01:09:18):
So you you lose and you go home. Man, season done.
Off season can coon trip whatever you're doing. If you lose,
you're out, buddy. So figured out seven one three seven
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Speaker 6 (01:09:29):
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I know it's the cold out there. I was there
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Speaker 4 (01:09:41):
Yeah, good, thank you.

Speaker 6 (01:09:44):
Hey, So I got a question for you, man. I
don't think I've ever heard about ANSI you and I've
been wondering. You know, you look at certain guys and
and some fields and just seeing on the on the field,
you see like Mike Singer, Kerry, you know Jack Lambert
in the middle, you know uh Ray Lewis, and you

(01:10:04):
see their eyes who absolutely just scared you the disc
on the football field when you was out there.

Speaker 4 (01:10:12):
Hmmm, let me answer that, O g Q And uh,
I don't know if I don't think you want to
admit that we were ever scared to death. Like I know,
there's some guys you look at and say, damn, this
dude's different, and you know, you know who What's I'll
tell you who is the scariest pregame warm up guy
on the planet was Alonzo Spellman from Ohio State. Now,

(01:10:37):
let me explain something to you. When he'd walk around
and he had those eyes. You know, I'm talking about
pregame And I was never saying, listen you when when
we played in Philadelphia at the Old Vet and walking
there Reggie White and Pitt's and Andre Waters and Eric
Allen and Jerome Brown Randall Cunningham that that was a
that when you go into Philly on a Saturday afternoon

(01:10:59):
in the that can be intimidating. Not scared, but just
seth Joyner and they were low you knew going in.
Or when you played in three rivers in Greg Lloyd
and Rod Woodson and Carnell Lake, you knew Levon Kirkland.
You just knew in those games you were gonna it was.
It was a fistfight, and you were gonna take shots
to the jaw, even if you want or not. And

(01:11:20):
it happened against both and one one of them lost
the other and we were in it until the end,
and on the other one we lost. But it was
from the opening snap you're getting the hell kicked at you.
And that's just survival and you got to stay focused.
But in the now, singletary, yes, staring across from the
best thing to do is don't look them in the
eye because some of those guys like, oh, I can
remember that my very first snap, one of my first

(01:11:40):
snaps in the league, Fred Smerliss, the old Buffalo Bills
defensive tackle. I walked up to the line of scrimmage.
He goes he winked at me and says, we're coming
to get you, rookie, And so you know I had
to shake it off and try to go get completion.
So those things, yes, when you watch Lawrence Taylor, Reggie
White while what in the eyes the intimidate knowing they
could take over a game. But I'm gonna tell you
a lot Spelman during pregame warm up. Now, the Bears

(01:12:02):
were the most intimidate because Dan Hampton and McMichael they
would all come sleeveless shirts and try to be cold
at and they would be jacked up. You know. They
they had the pregame warm up intimidation thing down. Plus
you knew their reputation defensively. But Alonzo Spellman, now you
pictured it's about six five, about two eighty two seventy five.
And I'm not kidding when I say this. Striations he

(01:12:23):
had he was carved out when I when we joke
about people being carved out of granite. The dude was
had about a thirty inch waist that went up to
like you know, the big V. But he was and
his arms were his his his his his, uh, his wingspan, yeah, his,
and there were striations like he was a two hundred
and eighty pound guy in a two hundred and twenty
five pound cut up body, right, I mean he was jacked.

(01:12:46):
He was big. He kind of walked around to himself,
but he wore a sleeveless shirt and his arms, his
his wingspan looked like he could reach from sideline to sideline.
I'm just he's one of those guys. His arms were
so long that he almost felt like he could scratch
his calf standing straight up. He was big. He was
just a monster. And you look at Yeah Spelman and

(01:13:08):
he beat to a different drum. We know the stuff
that happened post career, But in pregame war up, I
never saw a guy look more like if that guy
plays like he looks. But I can tell you this,
at times with him, he had that look. Then you'd
get into a game and you could block him with
one hundred and eighty five pound running back. So the

(01:13:30):
performance at times, because he was so gifted, but it
did not match, you know, like like a Richard Dent
his performance match to I mean Richard was intimidating, But
Spelman's pregame walked through and he'd walk around. You're like,
just don't look at him because he was one of
those guys you say, man, why am I playing football
with guys like that in the league. But he just
never really achieved what he wanted to achieve. And I

(01:13:51):
know he had some mental issues in his life and
his career. But as far as just the optics, I
ain't never seen a guy and I played against some
chip banks and claim I mean I played against the
best in the world. That guy in pregame warm up
would make you think twice about why you're playing football.
But during the game we didn't have to block him.
With two guys he was, he was pretty easy to block.

Speaker 6 (01:14:12):
So as soon as you said that name, man, I
knew you were talking about. I remember Keith Jackson on
ABC and he was he was like they were doing
the Ohio State Michigan game and his his uh, how
he was going to make you know? It was also spearman.
He said six five to eighty and he only disprints

(01:14:34):
the student union building, right, And you say, a guy
his prince the student union building. You know, hey, that
see it is a lot there.

Speaker 4 (01:14:41):
Oh yeah, he carried he carried the team bus. He
could bench press the team bus. I'm just telling you
Andrew there wasn't he had less body fat than one
hundred and ninet pound running back. The guy was was yoked.

Speaker 6 (01:14:52):
Yeah, yeah, one more question quick with Sean. I know
who was the most talented receivers? You could say you
threw too.

Speaker 10 (01:14:58):
I'll let y'all go.

Speaker 4 (01:14:59):
Make thank you appreciate most Now that's a different world.
Most talented. The best route runner was Steve Largent, Chris
Carter not far behind. That's two Hall of famers. The
most talented wide receiver in my career that it was
on the same team as me. I'm going back to
my Trojan days. I'm going back to my Minnesota days.

(01:15:22):
Gosh talented that you're like, that's a can't miss guy.
You know, we get. I had a guy named Darryl
Turner who was the opposite of Steve Ian was our
deep guy in rookie in Seattle. He was so gifted,
DT could run by and he was a big play guy,
so gifted and big and physical. I guess because when
you watch employees to go play basketball just on the

(01:15:43):
sheer athleticism, it probably was Chris Carter. Chris could go
play football on a Sunday and then in the off season,
he'd be dunkin balls over everybody in the local lifetime
fitness gym and big hands, great body control. Now, if
you're talking about the most talent receiver I ever saw that,
that would be different. Chris was as good as there
as Steve Largent was the best. He and Carter were

(01:16:03):
the best I ever played. I still think large it's
the best route runner there is on the planet. It's
still still now. I mean, he's better than anybody running
orout to now when it comes to just knowing how
to get open and understanding concepts. But Carter probably the
most talented simply because of his ability to do a
lot of different things. Very and he wasn't the fastest

(01:16:23):
four to six guy high four fives maybe, but he
was as he was talented. If the ball was anywhere
near him, he was Spider Man man. Pretty impressive, sounds
pretty impressive.

Speaker 3 (01:16:32):
Let's get to break and I will continue this a
Texans discussion next on seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (01:16:37):
Let this celebration start wars Sean Sundsbury on Sports Talk
seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (01:16:45):
And of course on Friday night, it's the Texas Longhorns
and the Ohio's Day Buckeyes up in the Cotton Bowl
in Dallas at AT and T Stadium, been talking Texans
their matchup against the Chargers. Got a bunch of movement
going on with this coaching carousel, Sean, did you see
Dallas Cowboys? They said, nope, you cannot interview Mike McCarthy

(01:17:07):
to the Bears.

Speaker 4 (01:17:08):
Yeah, and they have what till the fourteenth in this
negotiation time with Mike McCarthy. Otherwise and he becomes a
free then they can't tell him squat after the fourteenth.
HiT's Mike McCarthy doesn't need their approval, Yeah, as his
contract expired Wednesday, But there's that negotiating rights through through
the fourteenth, which is what are we to name which
is the middle of the next week, and well, I

(01:17:30):
think it's Tuesday, and then Mike McCarthy can be free.
So if he doesn't get a deal done, part of
you says the Cowboys want him, then what are you
waiting on because you're not letting him go, you know,
interview somewhere else. If you don't want him, just cut
him loose, let him go do it, which tells me
they're probably going to try to work it out at
their price and get it done. And Mike McCarthy more
than likely to be back as the head coach, right,

(01:17:51):
I mean you'd think, yeah, you would think if they're
I mean, if you didn't want him and you were
gonna let him go, when you just say say, yeah,
go go interview with him, Mike, you good a chance
to I'd want to be respectful and let a guy
go have a chance to get another head coaching job.
So maybe it's just coming down to the're doing this
and they're going to come in a lower number than
Mike wants. Yeah, it's obvious the Bears want Mike's listen,

(01:18:11):
regardless what people say. And you know, they've played pretty
good football considering they've had some guys injured too late
to stay at least stay afloat, right, Mike's Mike's got
some things he needs to fix as a coach. But
you got a Super Bowl ring. And it's not just
it's not in spite of him. You know, he got
to be a decent head coach, can win a Super
Bowl ring, so somebody else holds him in high regard.
But it'll tell you how Jerry feels about two things.

(01:18:33):
One that he doesn't want the discomfort of having somebody
with a lot of power come in, and two that
he can control the whole situation, and that Mike McCarthy's
a good to new football coach that he thinks to
keep getting them unlike this year to the playoffs. The
question is do you think he can win in February
and the Cowboys haven't seen that since what the mid nineties?
Mid nineties? Yep, yep.

Speaker 3 (01:18:52):
And then also Tom Brady apparently trying to get Bill
Belichick to rethink his North Carolina's job, So maybe take
the head coaching job for the Raiders?

Speaker 4 (01:19:01):
Would you do it? I don't think so. I think he.
I think he's he's offered you. What if they offer
you fifteen million a year for five years?

Speaker 3 (01:19:11):
That would be such an f you to the University
of North Carolina. It would didn't his dad start there?
I want to say the Naval Academy guy as well? Yeah,
I want to say his dad had something to do
with North as an assistant coach or something something there.

Speaker 4 (01:19:23):
Yeah, that was one of the reasons why he went.

Speaker 3 (01:19:25):
Plus it's gonna another big reason is Bill Belichick's going
to be the head coach there for a couple of
years and then he's passing it off to his son.
That's part of the contract. Yeah, so I don't think
he would take an NFL job.

Speaker 4 (01:19:36):
I don't either. Now, Brady can probably be pretty convincing considering,
but unfortunate for Bill. What's unfortunately if he goes to
the Raiders, Tom ain't playing quarterback for him, No he's not.
And the lad O'Connell's a serviceable, decent player. You're still
trying to figure out a roster that Bill just left.
A roster in New England wasn't very good, right, and
now you're going to come to a roster it's like, oh, yeah,

(01:19:57):
how long is it going to take me to build it?
And how can I get that guy playing under center
that allows me to have a chance? In North Carolina,
you can recruit three of those guys. So I don't
think he'll take it. But what would prevent him from
at least listening to his former quarterback? And if you're
North Carolina, you're probably saying to think, we knew this
was coming down the pike that the NFL teams were

(01:20:18):
gonna want, just like Sarkisian is gonna get interviewed and
offered a job, or if not offered. They're gonna they're
gonna feel him out. They just are.

Speaker 6 (01:20:25):
Now.

Speaker 4 (01:20:26):
I don't know if one hundred million dollars can take
him away from Texas and take him to Jacksonville or
somewhere else. But I can tell you this that if
he doesn't go, watch how quickly you get a pay race.

Speaker 5 (01:20:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:20:37):
This happens all the time where hey man, I'm not
going to go, oh well, then just don't know. Two
million dollars a year extra and we'll add more incentives
and to keep you at Texas. Those things happen alls.
It takes is interest from somebody else to ooh. On
the NFL level, now, I can go whenever I want,
whether whether he takes it or not. And he's got
some good arch manning waiting in the house. So I'll say,
if you've got a good hold on nil college, if

(01:21:00):
in fact you could handle the nil and all exactly
and had that money supporting it, and it seems like
Texas has that, why would you plenty of it?

Speaker 3 (01:21:07):
Why would you want to go to a dumpster fire
like the Patriots or the Jaguars or the Raiders.

Speaker 4 (01:21:11):
Basically, you're going to a team that is in desperate
need to help. You're not going to a great team,
Like it's not like somebody retired and their teams are
super like Andy Reid retired and you're to wait to
get that job. So yeah, Brian, I don't think he'll
take it, but I would imagine if you're Brady, you
have to ask, right, you wanted something fixed? And yeah,
he's been known how to do it. But I think

(01:21:32):
Bill's probably gonna He understands the pr nightmare that it
would be at this at this stage after recruiting and
all the people that are going there to do that
to North Carolina, that's a lot of bird And then
what's the difference for him at this point in time?
He could go make ten million a year given coaching clinics,
So it's now to go prove that you can win

(01:21:52):
on the college level. And I'm sure he's leaning on
Nick Saban on how.

Speaker 12 (01:21:55):
To do it.

Speaker 3 (01:21:55):
Yeah, there's no doubt there. Let's get to the eight
o'clock hour. We'll continue to talk about college football. Well,
that semi final tonight the Orange Bowl, Penn State and
Notre Dame.

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Speaker 3 (01:24:14):
You got the final day for negotiations before arbitration hits
in Major League Baseball. I to see what the Astros
do with a couple of their players. Jeremy Pena, one
of those guys from ber Valdez, Ritio Dubont, and a
few others Texans Chargers Saturday it stack from college football
semifinals tonight Orange Bowl Penn State Notre Dame. It is
going to be a good one over in Miami. I

(01:24:38):
believe it's a six thirty kickoff. As of right now,
Notre Dame is still a one and a half point
favorite over under still said at forty five and a half.

Speaker 4 (01:24:47):
Nothing really moving just yet.

Speaker 3 (01:24:50):
Maybe maybe closer to kickoff it might move a half
a point, but I doubt it. Basically a pick them
game be a physical A lot of defense will see
how Penn State will do with a Notre Dame's speed
on the edge. Man they are shown this. This Notre
Dame team is fast.

Speaker 4 (01:25:06):
As fast as I can remember a Notre Dame team. Normally,
when you get into the post, you say Notre Dame's
lack of speed's gonna cause them problems. I think, lad
that their speed has actually been a big help. They're
playing great defense. Riley Leonard's production with his feet and
arm will be a difference. I like Notre Dame in
the game as much as I love Penn State's versatility

(01:25:27):
offensively and their defense. As well. I think Notre Dame's
real I do. I'm picking Notre Dame in a game,
are you I am? I'm picking Notre Dame in a game.
I just there's a different feeling I have for Notre Dame.
They could, They got enough playmakers and they hit you
around enough. I just I think the maxia Notre Dame

(01:25:48):
and a veteran quarterback is going to help them. As
much respect as I have for Penn State. I think
I'll be a hell of a game. I don't think
it's I don't think the team's capable of blowing the
other one out, at least it feels that way. I
just think that Notre will make more just just they'll
they'll grind out this victory. I love their team speed
on this they match. They finally are at the point

(01:26:09):
where they don't have to take a back seat to
the perimeter speed of other teams. I think I think
they can. They can beat Penn State, and you're gonna
get a classic final, whether in Notre Dame and it's
gonna be you know, Ohio State or or Texas And regardless,
you're gonna get a blue blood final no matter what.

Speaker 3 (01:26:25):
Yeah, I think with this matchup. It's kind of eerily
similar on the defensive side. They're both stingy defenses, run
first teams. Just some little history with these two. They
have played nineteen times in the history, nine and nine, nine,
nine and one, so basically tied. The schools last met

(01:26:46):
in two thousand and seven, but they haven't played in
the postseason since a twenty to nine Notre Dame victory
in the nineteen seventy six Sun Bowl, last time they
played in a postseason game, So it's gonna be it's
gonna be a de first game unless unless you see
a track me, but I doubt it. Yeah, I think
the track meet might be tomorrow night.

Speaker 4 (01:27:08):
Well, anybody going in. And you know there are those
times when all of a sudden, the teams that are
supposed to give us the track meet give us a
seventeen to fourteen game, and the ones that aren't go
thirty one to twenty eight. So I just I to me,
there is no overwhelming favorite in either one of these games.
Ohio State should be favored against Texas. They should be
even though Texas is playing in the state. The way

(01:27:29):
they've played this postseason, Ohio State belongs there, but I
think Texas can beat them, and it just I love
both these games. I'm not going to miss a snap
of either one because for different reasons. But one thing
I do know for sure that all the offensive and
pretty stuff, all the all the white collar periphery, really cool, slick,

(01:27:53):
sexy offenses that they mean and players that they have.
When I say I'm talking about, you know that feeling
of oh man, everybody can go score or every time
they touch the ball. The defenses and the fact that
they all are worth a body blows to knock you
out in the gut, not just in the face. All
four of these teams are capable, and it's rare that
we get that. And we also know you obviously know

(01:28:15):
the identity all four. There is no mistaking it. Notre
Dame's team speeds different this year, and coach Framan has
done a great job. I think this is going to
be a hell of a game tonight and a great
one tomorrow night. And there's a lot to like, and
there's a lot of Sunday players on all four of
these teams.

Speaker 3 (01:28:33):
Kind of sucks that these games are being played on
a Thursday and Friday because of the NFL playoffs.

Speaker 4 (01:28:36):
This weekend, which are on Saturday. You know, I would
agree Thursday night, semi final game in the college football playoff,
come on, man. Yeah, And basically they've done it coming
in horned in on this Saturday. But in defense of
the NFL, remember, at this time of year Saturday, we
weren't playing college football games. We're waiting on the normally

(01:28:59):
like Monday night for the national championship and the when
it comes to the final four, right that playoff. But
now that we got all these teams, so we've as
college have kind of horned into January Saturday games trying
to and the NFL said, well, don't think so, so
go Thursday.

Speaker 10 (01:29:13):
Right.

Speaker 4 (01:29:13):
At least you're gonna get the show all by yourself. Yeah,
no doubt.

Speaker 3 (01:29:16):
At least the games are on Thursday one, games on
Thursday one, games on Friday. So I'll be watching every
snap too, because I'm excited for these seven one, three, two, two, five,
seven ninety. What's happening now?

Speaker 12 (01:29:26):
Hey, guys, how we doing it? Happy New Year?

Speaker 4 (01:29:30):
Happy New Year to YouTube. Brother.

Speaker 12 (01:29:32):
I've been waiting.

Speaker 14 (01:29:34):
I've been patiently waiting all morning for us to uh
move to college football.

Speaker 12 (01:29:40):
You know, Sean, you knew I was gonna.

Speaker 4 (01:29:42):
Call you today. Absolutely what a season your team's had. Man,
it's uh the awesome they sure have.

Speaker 14 (01:29:50):
It's it has been a great season for me because
I got to go see my team play the first
game of the season against A and M and and
you know, we had a little bump in the road.
But you know that little bump in the road, Sean,
that that might have been the best thing that happened
to us.

Speaker 12 (01:30:08):
Somebody poked a bear. We haven't lost since.

Speaker 4 (01:30:13):
It's been a phenomenal run. And I'll tell you what
al nobody we don't even talk about enough is both
coach Golden and coach den Brock on the on Notre
Dame staff, two really good veteran coaches for the defense
and offensive coordinators. There's a lot of trust in that
building right now on their football team. I uh, it's
rare that you know. And when we're talking team speed,
that hasn't been a Notre Dame trait it is now.

(01:30:35):
They fly and their defense is really is really nasty.
It's gonna be a fun game.

Speaker 14 (01:30:40):
Yes, yeah, yeah, I'm excited for today.

Speaker 12 (01:30:43):
I you know, my wife loves her heart.

Speaker 14 (01:30:48):
She listens to me scream at the TV, you know,
and all that kind of stuff. But she looked over
in that last game. She looked over at the end
of the game and there was tears running down my face,
and she said, what's wrong? And I said, there's nothing wrong.
But I've been waiting a long time for.

Speaker 4 (01:31:06):
This, yep, and you got a team that's a legitimate
threat to win the whole thing, no question, Yes, sir,
So happy for you.

Speaker 5 (01:31:14):
Man.

Speaker 4 (01:31:14):
I know it matters to it.

Speaker 12 (01:31:16):
Does it matters to me a lot? You know so?

Speaker 14 (01:31:19):
And I still say in a regular season USC gave
us the best game of anybody we played all year.

Speaker 12 (01:31:28):
That was that was a nail bider. You guys were
right there all the way.

Speaker 4 (01:31:33):
Hell of a rivalry, hell of a football game. The
problem is we couldn't give other teams that very much
this year, but man, so Notre Dame brought out the
best that is. Hopefully that'll change and get back to
where both are powerhouses. But good luck. Enjoy that. Enjoy
that tonight, my man. I know you've you've earned it. Tonight.
I think it'll be a blast, So hope it turns
out well for you.

Speaker 12 (01:31:51):
Thank you, Sean.

Speaker 14 (01:31:52):
You guys have a great day and and another great
year on the radio.

Speaker 4 (01:31:56):
Thank you, We play on making an epic twenty twenty five.
Thank you. Let's get to break. We'll continue to talk
about this Orange Bowl match up next.

Speaker 2 (01:32:06):
Back to the Sean Salisbury Show on Sports Talk seven
ninety Sports Your asteroids, your rockets.

Speaker 1 (01:32:14):
Your voice.

Speaker 3 (01:32:17):
Looking at some of these offenses, Penn State's offense throughout
the playoffs really hasn't played well, only averaging two point
two points per possession. Throughout the regular season, they were
a two point nine with a success rate of forty
six point seven percent. That down from fifty one percent

(01:32:38):
on the season. And the big thing, the explosive plays
for Penn State not there. But they've continued to win
because their defense is that damn good.

Speaker 4 (01:32:47):
Yeah, but you're gonna need explosives at somebody, and that
doesn't mean you have to throw it forty yards down
the field. Explosives happen back that. I would argue there's
far more explosive plays that happen underneath the explosive number,
whether it's twenty depending on fifteen ten yard plus run
or a fifteen yard plus run, fifteen or twenty yard
plus pass. A lot of those explosives happen was run

(01:33:08):
after catch. The ball's not throwing. Most of your explosives
aren't because you threw the ball forty yards. They are
fifty yards down the field. So they're going to have
to come up with a few of these in this
game or you know, you're going to keep slug fest
and you can't keep the set a field goal for touchdown,
field goal for touchdown. It'll be incumbent upon them without
forcing them. But they're going to need to reachion their
back of tricks and what got them, you know, and

(01:33:29):
when I said innovative, and they are. They'll do a
bunch of different stuff to get that big tight end involved.
But Penn State's just going to beat to Their goal
is to hammer you physically and make sure that they
don't beat themselves, which is everybody's goal. Penn State's capable
of it.

Speaker 3 (01:33:43):
And then on the flip side of the Irish, they
got to a lot to figure some things out of
Jeremiah Love, their running back CAMPI plays such.

Speaker 4 (01:33:49):
An important injury in this season. It is because when
you talk about speed, you've seen that guy run away
from people and make some huge plays. Now they will
still commit to Notre Dame will that he is a
difference maker on the field. I don't know how healthy
he'll be or what the deal is with him, but

(01:34:10):
I want to see everybody's best tonight, and I'd love
to see him on the field. He was banged up
against Georgia. He only had nineteen yards rushing. Yep, he
is such a he's such a different difference maker.

Speaker 3 (01:34:21):
He rushed for over one hundred yards against Iowa, excuse me,
against Indiana in the first round, rushed for one hundred
against USC, one hundred and thirty against Army. I mean,
it's basically pretty much he's over a thousand yards rushing
so far this season. Four Notre Dame still no idea
if he's going to play. He's pretty banged up from

(01:34:44):
all these reports, so they're going to need him against
a really, really good Penn State defense. I would the
over undershwan forty five and a half for.

Speaker 4 (01:34:53):
Me in that game. I would right now, like Vegas
ain't stupid. No, it feels to me similar to what
we're going to see on Saturday here with physical you know,
you said it's forty five feels like twenty three, like
twenty four to twenty. It feels like the one that's
going to hover around the number. I think if it

(01:35:14):
gets up in the higher score of over thirty, you know,
Notre Dame might be having a little bit of fun
with the way they've played. But I I this is
one of those my the way Penn State's offense has
played recently and the way both these defense are going,
and depending on love status, I would lean towards under
in this game. Yeah, I think I would take the under. Yeah.
And Plus, when you're in a big game like this,

(01:35:35):
what usually happens. There's a little more pressure, so you
put maybe push you know, you stress a little more,
miss some throws, miss some big plays because of the
anxiety of a big game, and face facts are still young.
A lot of these guys, well, when's the last time
Notre Dame this None of these guys on either current
one has been in a final four over the last

(01:35:56):
in the playoffs for a while, so this is this
is they've been in big games because the Big ten
and has big games all the time, and so there's
Notre Dame all the time, stadiums filled, but there's going
to be a different anxiety level and choke factor level.
So a lot of times when it's that I give
the defense an advantage because they're just flying around hitting.
Yet they don't have to catch footballs on a regular
basis and blog, you know, they just get to free

(01:36:17):
wheel it. I would lean towards the under in the
football game. I think nerves will have a little bit
to do with a slower start.

Speaker 3 (01:36:24):
Also, these coordinators, like you get in a high pressure situation,
sometimes you close.

Speaker 4 (01:36:29):
Your playbook a little bit. Oh of course, you do
play a little too safe. You're compressed, you know, compress it.
And that is just when it's like advertising in a
time when it's the economy is not good. Everybody, here's
a matter of fact, do more when you feel compressed.
When four minutes, John, you gotta win the game, get
out of there with a win. But just when you think, man,

(01:36:50):
maybe I should scale back, is the time that if
you like it and it worked, attack, think attack and
back off later. Don't think I don't need I want somebody.
I got to grab by the you know, the horse
collar and say, hey man, that's we don't need to
We're good, yeah, as opposed to come on, now, let's
let's attack. So if I'm the head coach. I have

(01:37:10):
told my coordinators that you do what with what brong.
You will adjust every game. You do not back off
because it's a semi final. We ain't playing just to
get by, right, We're playing to win the damn thing right,
damn right, and and those that can get out of
their own way. And a lot of times that's usually
what is team and player or coach that you don't
get out of your own way because you're trying to
preserve your victory. I'll preserve that when it's time for

(01:37:33):
kneel down and we got timeouts at the end in
the middle of the second quarter, ain't time to preserve.
Because I got news for you. In none of these games.
Fourteen points is safe in any of these two games
with these four teams, fourteen points because they'll grind on
you enough to stay close. Somebody misses the field goal.
You gee, you get field position. I am just going
to tell you do not. This is I am so

(01:37:54):
the opposite. I want to step on the gas pedal
when you're not supposed to as opposed to win, you
I do. I'm this to me. We're on the auto bond, bro.

Speaker 3 (01:38:01):
Yeah, if you gotta if you gotta coach your guys
to pick it up, then.

Speaker 4 (01:38:05):
You're we're in trouble. I'd prefer to I'd prefer to
have to back them off when they want to fight
a guy on the other team. From personal, I want
to be able to say, okay, man, let's gather us poise,
be poised, but I don't want you being overly worried
about poise getting in the way you flying around and
a coordinator from attacking the way we do. If you
do it and attack and stick with what brung you

(01:38:26):
and be able to make adjustments on the fly, yeah
you'll be on it.

Speaker 5 (01:38:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:38:29):
Champion hasn't made a muscle. A champion has made a heart.
But here's the thing. Yeah, what they forgot out of
that the muscle, your heart is a muscle. Yeah that's true. Yeah,
Liang Chow, So basically Liang Chow. Yeah, he's to understood
recognize that the heart is a muscle. So really and
truly it's also it's about muscle and it's about heart
because the heart's both.

Speaker 11 (01:38:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:38:50):
So behind it, Yeah, behind every champion is a team
that prepared to become that champion.

Speaker 4 (01:38:55):
Yeah. Thanks, you're welcome. I'm Sean Salid. The show is
zig Ziggler, Okay, zig Ziggler.

Speaker 3 (01:39:06):
Hey, you started off the show at six oh one,
ready to run through the wall, and I'm still ready. Yeah,
I'm just trying to drop quotes. Man, I uh, I
got good buddies that you know, put these together. Like
Muhammad Ali said, to be a great champion, you must
believe you're the best, if not pretend you are.

Speaker 4 (01:39:19):
Yeah, that's why. That's that's what that goes back to
the other. Don't ever let him see his sweat, right,
you know, if you can't dazzle him with brilliance, baffle
him with BS. Yeah, can you say yeah, you can't
say that. Well, you can say bs. He just can't
say rules. Yeah, it's just you know, why why can't
we I don't know. I guess you can't try it?
Test it? No, you don't want to test it? I
mean I can. Yeah, triple leaters at the dump there?

(01:39:40):
You want me to no, don't? Okay? All right, fine,
because what if all of a sudden is he got
like his fingers cramp ramp, I can I can't. Okay,
we get fined, Yeah, I'm not paying it. Yeah, So
you don't want to pay that fine.

Speaker 3 (01:39:50):
I'm not paying that fine, no for sure, So hopefully
Tripley's hands don't don't cramp up. Seven one three, two
one two five, seven ninety is the number to join.
We'll get down to your phone call. I was talking
about the college football playoffs. Let's look at the Texas
Longhorns in the Ohio State Buckeys. Can Texas pull off
that upset? Talk about a next in Sports Talk seven ninety.
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But the Shawn Salisbury Show continues. The one thing you

(01:41:40):
said that's definitely true. They all hated Hoa.

Speaker 4 (01:41:44):
There is no question you know anybody that doesn't hate Hoa.

Speaker 3 (01:41:48):
No, because I I have owned two homes in my
life and I hated both hys.

Speaker 4 (01:41:52):
There off, I'm plotting my plan.

Speaker 3 (01:41:54):
Like I'm talking, dude, I'm talking like to the point
where you saw Karen driving by taking pictures of your house.
If your trash can wasn't picked up six hours after
the trash guy put your trash can back to the
curt I gotta come clean.

Speaker 4 (01:42:05):
Terrible man. I'm at the point now right. There's part
of me that wants to do stuff like build a fence.
That's got to be you know, build something. Yeah, about
three quarters of the things I've done in my backyard,
just do it. I've done it. I begged permission, ask forgiveness,
Yeah you know. I mean I beg forgiveness later Yeah later, Right,
I beg forgiveness instead of ask permissions, right, and never

(01:42:29):
an issue. But I got news for it. There's almost
part of me said, well, you can't plant this certain
type of flower. It makes me want to plant that
flow exactly what are you going to do? Take my scholarship?
You already we already pay enough money in h O
as a year, and I still know I see no change.
When are we going to get an ass kick in
ho A person? It's for the people, not for their money. Right.

(01:42:52):
So if you're in h o A and you're listening,
tell us why we should love you. Yeah, exactly, either way,
it's not personal. Hoa's below. Yeah, they suck, They're terrible.
To waste them money man, seven And they will they
will just they will destroy you price wise, Oh, I
know they will. And then and they raise it every
year every year. I've been in my house three straight
years they've raised it and a significant raise. I don't

(01:43:13):
know they need to raise thank you, damn right and
good night, yeah, good night. Seven one. Three white guys
in their Atlanta garage started music when they were nine
and their mom and dad were pissed because the drummer
kept beating on drums and they're trying to eat guarantee.
There they are, Yeah, they're in the suburbs. I saw
the look Atlanta rhythm section first, think any minds like,

(01:43:34):
oh yeah the sweet ass brother soul man. Yeah, well,
oh you got it. Okay, you'll never forget the Atlanta rhythms,
just like the average white band. Tell me about you'll
see that. There's some white boys are there too. There
you go, just an average white band. Some good brothers
in there too. Now, yeah, let's start getting scared. Now,
I ain't anybody scared, man? Now this show? So is this?

(01:43:56):
Are these fires by chance or accident? Go ahead, I'm
looking for your answer, just a simple yesterday, I'm looking.
I'm waiting by accident. Uh, I'm asking you if this was,
if this is, if this is on purpose some of this?
Go ahead and answer if you think it is. Nobody's
get mad at you. No, I know I still have
compassion and care about.

Speaker 3 (01:44:16):
Of course, but I could go on like a fifteen
minute rand if you really want me to. Yeah, by
by accident?

Speaker 4 (01:44:21):
No? Uh huh. James Woods also believe it's ours. I mean,
there's some people who believe this is. There's a video.
There's a video, wasn't I didn't see one up at
the Hollywood Hollywood Hills signs. It started just in that
area last night. Yeah, it's yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:44:35):
Actually Emmanuel Acho video he was like the Hollywood Hills
were literally on fire, working its way towards the Hollywood
sign It's really weird.

Speaker 4 (01:44:42):
I watched. Doesn't make it doesn't make the compassion you
answer many less, But it's I don't know. I guess
you could question the conspiracies with the water, the area insurance.
I know all the Hollywood elites are come on, man,
everybody living in I just I just decided to ask
you a simple question, the conspiracy, I mean, come on evil. Yeah,

(01:45:03):
And I watched, dude, I watched the video yesterday.

Speaker 3 (01:45:05):
I have a woman that tried to help out a
homeless couple near I forgot near somewhere Palisades, somewhere all
that areas, and they got into an argument. And as
she was walking away, they were trying a light of fire,
like just in the middle of the beach, like right
by a bunch of dry grass.

Speaker 4 (01:45:22):
Too soon? Yeah, wrong timing award, Like, what what are
you doing? Stop it? Right? So thanks caring. I mean
the the what you're looking at doesn't feel this feels
like it's out of a Kurt Russell apocalyptic movie and
just so out of nowhere too. But then you got
to think about the timing. Yep, yeah, you know, yeah,
I mean it's worthy of the question. It reminds me.

(01:45:44):
It reminds me of the fires and Hawaii. If you're
not asking the boy that went away quick, nobody talked
about that after what's the distraction? But I can tell
you this, it's okay to ask the questions. If nobody's
asking the questions and we ain't never get an answered,
you may never get answers anyway. The leadership out in
that state took it perfectly beautiful, maybe the most beautiful
state in the country when it comes to ocean, and
can turn it into that in the leadership and the

(01:46:05):
trash ass leadership and decision makers have ruined it, yes,
and now they're ruined it. I mean they've ruined lives
along the way with the with the you know, the
whole everything that they've done. They know, they're they're not
about the people there, No, they're they're just not. And
that's my home state, no better than anybody right now.
It's freaking awful. Yeah, it is awful, man, Thank goodness
to Texas. I love you. Yeah, and I hate to

(01:46:27):
say when you go from your home state, like man,
it's my heart's still there. But you know what, Yeah,
but you see stuff like that, it's not Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:46:34):
And the way that the you know, the local officials
are handling that, how do you not have water in
a fire hydrant?

Speaker 4 (01:46:41):
Yeah, that's what's blowing me. Could come on, that's that's
what's in that particular area and then the fire that
that's what where that's the only place it is.

Speaker 3 (01:46:49):
Yeah, yeah, they missed me with that exactly. Thanks, Yeah, yeah, exactly.
It's got the phone lines. Hello, Brandon, I'm spectacular, my man.

Speaker 4 (01:47:02):
How are you.

Speaker 6 (01:47:04):
Okay?

Speaker 11 (01:47:05):
Goes through audio season.

Speaker 4 (01:47:10):
I like it.

Speaker 3 (01:47:11):
It'll be here before you know it, Brandon. Yeah, it's
a rodeo is going to be in March, so buddy,
we still got some time.

Speaker 9 (01:47:18):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (01:47:19):
If you're like, if you didn't ask if we're going,
my cutout, my said said, when I am going? You
just said rodeos. Yeah, it's coming up. It'll be here
in three months. Yeah, I can't wait. I'm excited, Brando.
I'm with you, Brandon. What's up, buddy?

Speaker 11 (01:47:35):
Come on man, I'm ready for college football that today.

Speaker 3 (01:47:38):
Are you gonna watch the game tonight? Don't tell me
you're gonna watch it and then not watch it, Brando.

Speaker 1 (01:47:43):
No, I am gonna watch it.

Speaker 4 (01:47:45):
What about the Rockets? The Rockets are on tonight too.
Both nice.

Speaker 3 (01:47:50):
When you calling tomorrow, Brandon, you better have watched one
of them.

Speaker 4 (01:47:56):
What are you gonna do? And what what are you
gonna do? He doesn't you know what, I'm stop taking
your call, so you can't do that. Brando's a fixture
on this show. Is Yeah, Brandon, are you there, buddy?

Speaker 9 (01:48:08):
Yeah, I'm here.

Speaker 4 (01:48:08):
Come on, man, what else?

Speaker 3 (01:48:10):
You got anything on the Texans before we let you go?

Speaker 1 (01:48:14):
No? First Saturday?

Speaker 3 (01:48:16):
Yeah, you're ready for Saturday? Good deal, buddy. We'll talk
to you tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (01:48:19):
Right, you guys have a good day.

Speaker 4 (01:48:22):
Brother. Yeah, I mean, I'll stop taking this call. You'll
just say, bro, he ain't watching. If you ain't starting,
you ain't departing. Twenty bucks says he doesn't watch either
game tonight. I'll take that twenty I'll say he does.

Speaker 5 (01:48:35):
He won't.

Speaker 4 (01:48:35):
He won't lie to us. He's always honest. I know that.
I'm gonna say, yes, he knows that you said watch either.

Speaker 9 (01:48:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:48:42):
Well, you guys are excited because three months away? What's
wrong with you? Just I'm just playing tell the facts.
I'm just getting out in front of it. Okay, I'm
a proactive guy. I'm excited. It's three months away. I'm
excited too, it's three months away exactly. Hey, come on,
I know.

Speaker 3 (01:49:01):
Don't tease me with a good time. Actually, I think
if I'm not mistaken. They released the lineup today for
the entertainers that are coming.

Speaker 4 (01:49:07):
To the Rodeo. Yeah, I'm doing a I'm collabing with Laney.
We're gonna see who can go more country? Really, Yeah,
collab and then me and Post or she's gonna whoop
your ass at that you can go like talking about
her twang. Yeah, and me and Post are probably gonna
post up a little bit. I don't even know if
Post is gonna be there. I'm gonna invite him, and
then I'm gonna collab with uh. Maybe I'll collab with Yeah,

(01:49:29):
it's John Party and uh, Thomas Rhett. Maybe a triple collab.
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:49:36):
Rodeo lineup is gonna be announced tonight at seven o'clock.

Speaker 4 (01:49:39):
Bun Bee is a part of that always, isn't he
a Bee like big part of that. But you know what,
I think bun Bee should come on here and tell
us first. Yeah, it would be great, Come on, bun
say can tell the man, let's go, bun Let's go,
yeah doing now. He always has he always has got
it going on for the.

Speaker 3 (01:49:53):
For the Uh, I'm gonna say Luke Bryan will be back.

Speaker 4 (01:49:57):
Yeah, who else? Uh? Rad Paisley. I'm gonna say this
is a Morgan Walling year. Can we get?

Speaker 8 (01:50:04):
Can we get?

Speaker 4 (01:50:04):
Can we get? M dub here?

Speaker 3 (01:50:06):
He was here last year in May. Yeah, maybe, but
that was at Minim parkh aren't you gonna revisit it?

Speaker 4 (01:50:12):
Man?

Speaker 3 (01:50:15):
I would I would like to see Morgan Walling here.
I want to see one of the biggest I just
want Luke comes to come back down.

Speaker 4 (01:50:20):
Cody Johnson will be here, oh for sure. And then
he's gonna preach about God whoa the election and other
stuff instead of just singing his episode songs. Maybe he
wants to sing about the means to sing about the
good Lord. He's the guy that likes Shi about the bends.
Like ten minutes walking out and he's.

Speaker 16 (01:50:38):
Like, man, God what, I'm glad everybody's here to not
did y'all say Trump?

Speaker 5 (01:50:44):
What?

Speaker 4 (01:50:46):
Don't let anybody tell.

Speaker 16 (01:50:48):
You to message your kids like dude, shut up and
see in the house. And everybody's like, it's the same
thing over and over again, triple I like Cody Johnson.

Speaker 4 (01:51:00):
Know what it feels like? Yeah, I'd hate to see it.

Speaker 12 (01:51:02):
I see no.

Speaker 4 (01:51:03):
I like Cody j He's got great music. Trip believe
there was a hint just racism, Yeah, kind of you
hating Whitey making fun of their voice America. I got
the bobble you guys want to go through it. See
so you're thumping little Bible around on the stage. What's

(01:51:23):
wrong with that? What there's an atheist in the crowd.
You better know you, You better know the rooms exactly,
You better know the entertainer. You better realize who you're
going to see. I like what you say. You're gonna
go see Billy Graham and think you're getting a concert. Okay,
he's a good point. That's a really good point. So hey, man,
just recognize I love.

Speaker 1 (01:51:43):
This country and you should too.

Speaker 4 (01:51:47):
We got any first spatters in the crowd? Who Yeah?
Have you seen the clips of him doing this? Did
I see Cody Johnson do all of it? He does
it for like fifteen minutes a show.

Speaker 3 (01:51:58):
Man hard on c J. I like, I like Cody
John's That just irks the out of me.

Speaker 4 (01:52:03):
Yeah, we're gonna get a What's My godfer Man little
maybe a little Riley Green this year. Maybe maybe he'll
do edit up with a with uh, you know, with Laney,
or maybe he'll do edit up with What's the gal
that the do you look like you look not Morgan, No,
what you look like? You want me to want you

(01:52:26):
to come on home? That's uh, that's Ella La Langley.
There you go. Maybe maybe he lang will be in
the house. Maybe, Yeah, what's wrong with you with me?

Speaker 9 (01:52:37):
Said?

Speaker 1 (01:52:38):
You know what that sounds like?

Speaker 4 (01:52:39):
It's a hint hint of white, hint of racism, making
fun of the voicebox. But it's three months away and
I'm excited.

Speaker 3 (01:52:47):
Don't leave it excited that it's three months away. Seven
ninety John, Big Jay. We'll get to you guys next,
so continue to talk about the college football playoffs.

Speaker 1 (01:53:00):
Ge're back.

Speaker 3 (01:53:01):
This is the Sean Salisbury Show. Get back at it,
Big Jay. We appreciate you. Holden Man, what's happening?

Speaker 13 (01:53:09):
Good morning, gentlemen, Happy Thursday. And I'm a few callers
too late, but Brandon just want to let you know
the Rockets and the Grizzlies they start at seven o'clock tonight.

Speaker 8 (01:53:19):
I'm not sure it will.

Speaker 4 (01:53:21):
Be on the radio.

Speaker 13 (01:53:22):
Bubba Okay, I don't know if there's a national broadcast, but.

Speaker 4 (01:53:26):
Yeah, I'll take that action.

Speaker 13 (01:53:27):
I don't think he's gonna watch.

Speaker 12 (01:53:29):
Sean.

Speaker 13 (01:53:30):
You posed a question earlier in the show, how do
you fix right?

Speaker 4 (01:53:33):
How do we stop complaining and fix the Texans?

Speaker 12 (01:53:36):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:53:36):
What are you gonna do if I got the play
sheet in your hand on Saturday and you tell me
how you're fortunate from your vantage point?

Speaker 13 (01:53:42):
I I am Unfortunately. I'm gonna have to max protect
and keep the tight ends in. I'm probably going two
tight ends. I'm worried about who's gonna win a matchup.
You know, we have Nico Collins, but GOLLI after that,
I'm worried about can Robert Woods or Deontay Johnson or
Hutchinson win a matchup. I'm gonna try to use Damian

(01:54:02):
Pierce a little bit more, maybe maybe both those guys
in the backfield, and then try to trust the right
side of the offensive line. You know, the left side
is kind of where our money is. But those guys,
if they don't jump off sides, you know, I think
the right side's got to get a push. But man,
there's a lot of questions. I think we're missing a
guy like Andrew Beck. I mean, he's an extra blocker.

(01:54:23):
He could catch the ball out of the backfield. He
makes some plays, and like you said earlier, we got
to move CJ in the pocket. If he's standing in
the pocket, he can get a little happy feed or
get balls knocked down. And I think he talked about
angle or arm angle or you.

Speaker 4 (01:54:36):
Know when you change changing launch point and changing arm angle,
you're usually throwing through windows as opposed to over somebody
because everybody's got their hands up. Yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:54:45):
I think one of the best plays we saw last
year in the playoffs against Cleveland, I believe h CJ
was rolling Riley right, came back, threw back across the
field to Dalton Schultz and was like, oh my.

Speaker 4 (01:54:56):
Gosh, Yeah, you're talking about on that deep boat. Wasn't
it the deep over route through back. Yeah, that's what.

Speaker 13 (01:55:01):
We want to see. But it's gonna be a tough matchup.
I mean, I think they, you know, the Texans can
pull it out, but man, you know, it's like you
look at the roster and see all the injuries in
the secondary, and then who can win some one on
one matchups at the wide receiver position. So that's gonna
be Uh, it's gonna be tough. Uh, it's gonna be
a tough one. But you know, hey, that's why they

(01:55:22):
play the games, right, I want to quickly quickly go
to Penn State and Notre Dame. I think a big
question is Abduall Carter number eleven?

Speaker 4 (01:55:30):
Man.

Speaker 13 (01:55:31):
One of the best number elevens I've ever saw play
linebacker was LeVar Arrington.

Speaker 8 (01:55:34):
That dude was a beast.

Speaker 13 (01:55:36):
If Abduable Carter can play, I think these two teams
are like looking in the mirror.

Speaker 8 (01:55:40):
I think they're the same thing.

Speaker 13 (01:55:42):
Both both have some pretty uh basic white guys at quarterback.

Speaker 8 (01:55:46):
But man, who can play better?

Speaker 6 (01:55:48):
You know?

Speaker 13 (01:55:49):
And I say basic white guys as they're starting at
blue buds, But man, those guys can play. And then
you know, who's gonna coach to win the game and
not lose the game? Right, everybody's come up with that mentality,
that Dan Campbell mentality, and who's gonna coach it to
win it and not lose it? That's gonna be a
big matchup. And then for my Longhorns, man, I hope

(01:56:10):
Sark instead of, you know, instead of giving Burt Auburn
a motivational speech, Hopefully he took him out of the
best Gentleman's club last night and got him the biggest
BBW he can concentrate on and get his mind all things,
because that dude has the shanks worse than anybody.

Speaker 4 (01:56:26):
But those are my thoughts for the weekend.

Speaker 13 (01:56:29):
I got Penn State, I got Texas and Brian one
one question for you man. You guys don't hate on
anybody you know at all really during the show, but
your disdain for coach Pop is intriguing to me. Now,
just from a strictly from a basketball standpoint, do you
do you think he's a good you know, you.

Speaker 8 (01:56:48):
Erase all the other nonsense.

Speaker 13 (01:56:50):
Just from a strictly basketball standpoint, what are your.

Speaker 3 (01:56:52):
Thoughts appreciate a big Jay As far as Greg Popovich's concern,
I think he's arguably one of the greatest. He's had
some really really good success, but his team over the
last five four or five years has been stagnant. They've
gotten they haven't gotten any better. And a head coach
supposed to improve your team. They have one of the

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best players in the NBA or one of the best
young players in Victor wabin Yama.

Speaker 4 (01:57:18):
They haven't been good. They're a five hundred team. I
think what happens is and Pop coach some really big
Hall of Fame superstars.

Speaker 3 (01:57:25):
Right, Yeah, he had Tim Duncan, Monogen Ubly and Tony Parker.

Speaker 4 (01:57:29):
You can't take what I mean, how many rings he
got five somewhere. You can't take away the fact that
you can't play. The object is to get great players,
and he got him and then he maximized him and
they won title. The guy can coach basketball. There was
no question about it. He can coached winning basketball. The
question is like the question they're happening with Belichick now,
when Brady left and the talent went down, can you

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keep him there? And the truth is, listen, what it
really comes down to the greatest coaches in the world
got to have good players. You do because you can't
make chicken sal That a chicken crap if if all
of a sudden, not to say any NBA players chicken crab,
but we know the difference between the great players and
the also rams, right yea, in their world. But yeah,

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I think Papovich is a hell of a coach. For me,
I don't listen to anything Papovich says off the court.
That doesn't mean he's not smart and doesn't mean he
doesn't impact others. His banter is nothing I'm interested in.
But as a coach and you're go into a teaching clinic. Yeah,
I want to hear from Greg Popovic and nothing but respect.

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I don't have to like what he says or how
he goes about his bits off. I mean, I shake
an entry. I love him. I do the way he
coaches and the way he's obviously impacted players. But Greg
Popovich and I probably aren't going to go have wine together,
and at least that wouldn't be but I would go
have wine with him, you know what, to listen to
the stories as long as we kept it to hoops
and motivation and how you get the most out of players,

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so you can take that. Yeah, So I could take
learn lessons from him to go. But you know, I
don't think there's ever been a question he can coach. No.

Speaker 3 (01:59:04):
No, they haven't been good since twenty eighteen and they
lost in the first round of the Nuggets in seven games.

Speaker 4 (01:59:10):
So good, good Listen. You always the Jimmy's and the
Joes are more important than the X's and Oz. He
always will be. Yeah, and I'm telling you who he's
talking about. Eleven at Penn State. Dude's a freak, and
eleven at Penn State with him. LeVar Michael Parsons. They
reward the best that that guy on that defense, and
he is a he is a game wrecker. So it's

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gonna be fun to watch. Yeah, plus the tight end
for Penn State. It's a freak two warns. Yeah, we
got we got some players and they can do some
things in these two games. Yeah, there is no doubt. Man.

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Speaker 3 (02:00:25):
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exchange salary figures for their arbitration eligible players.

Speaker 4 (02:00:48):
In Major League Baseball.

Speaker 3 (02:00:50):
You got a couple of guys Sean fromber Valdez, Mauricio Dubon,
Luis Garcia. He was actually Louis Garcia Saturday yesterday for
like one point eight million dollars.

Speaker 1 (02:01:00):
Brian A.

Speaker 3 (02:01:01):
Bray, Chas McCormick, Jake Myers, Jeremy Pania fromber Valdez could
make himself seventeen mil.

Speaker 4 (02:01:08):
Nice. Nice, you could take that cake, won't you? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (02:01:11):
I know.

Speaker 3 (02:01:11):
Mauricio Dubon last year was the only Astros player that
actually went to arbitration. Looks like he could hopefully settle
at four point six this year. Brian A Bray, You
Chas McCormick, Jake Myers, and Jeremy Penia all based under
five million. You know, I just where are we at?
It's January ninth and Alex Bregman is still a free agent.

Speaker 10 (02:01:37):
Odd?

Speaker 4 (02:01:37):
Isn't it very odd?

Speaker 3 (02:01:39):
Because like we said, when all this stuff started, we
thought it was going to go quick. We thought it
was going to be mid mid December by the time
he signed, because we thought he was going to get
over to and a million dollars. Now there's there's nothing like,
there are barely any discussions about it.

Speaker 4 (02:01:53):
What's going to end up happening is where I wanted?
Where is this going to? What's the end game for
this for Alex Bregman? I mean, is he sitting at
home frustrated as hell, wondering where am I playing my baseball?
Or is it just like no big deal to play somewhere? Yeah? Well,
what's he going through right now? I don't know.

Speaker 3 (02:02:10):
I don't know, but apparently I read a report earlier
this morning CBS Sports looks like the Red Sox are
hesitant to try and sign Alex Bregman. So this actually
came from a Bob nightingale.

Speaker 4 (02:02:28):
Excuse me.

Speaker 3 (02:02:30):
Boston Red Sox manager Alex Korra has been very vocal
in his desire to sign him, meaning Bregman. The team
has only spent fifty two and a half million. Raphael
Devers does not want to move from third base.

Speaker 4 (02:02:44):
Oh, here we go.

Speaker 3 (02:02:48):
So with Tristan cass Is over at first base, Vaughan
Grissom and top infield prospects on the way at second base,
GM Craig Breslo is hesitant to sign Alex Bregman.

Speaker 4 (02:02:59):
Well, then that means they're not going to pull the
stress if even if they want to sign him, and
it even going to be for the money he wants.
If they're hesitant, Dude, if you're if you're Rafael Devers,
well why would you not want to move to first base?
Have zero idea? Especially you know if you're Devs that
the guy at third that you're trying to get is
a better glove than you. It's just a fact, right,

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And putting you at first freezes you up with a
little I not a little less stress. I mean it's
still stress, I get it, but a little less different
on the premium side, and freeze him up even focus
more off the plate. And he's a great hitter. I
don't know, but I understand why you want to stay
there and that's your position. But yeah, in order to
make the team better, it's better with Devs at first

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base and so fragment at third.

Speaker 3 (02:03:42):
If they if that's the case Devers doesn't want to move,
then why would they be linked to Nolan Aeronado? And
why are they put at first base? Ten gold gloves
at third? You want to move vote first?

Speaker 4 (02:03:53):
That would be typical Red Sox, right, God, don't do that.
It's man, I guess they're gonna let I mean, if
they don't move on a third baseman, it'll tell you
that Devers is I mean, if it's true that he
does that, he's not willing to move, then then what
are you going to do? And now putting Bregman at
first base, I could see Aaron Otto, but both of

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them are better gloves than Rafaeld Devers. He's serviceable at
third base. He's not a great defensive player, right.

Speaker 9 (02:04:20):
But.

Speaker 4 (02:04:23):
Your your roster gets better. So I guess that's not important,
maybe for him, but maybe it is. I don't know,
but maybe he wants it to be at the expense
of moving him to a different position it's not his
and maybe that helped. Maybe third base is the reason
he feels like I'm comfortable playing third base and my
hitting I feed off that. And if that's the case,
then I got to listen. Yeah, for sure, the hell

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of a player. Sure yeah, sure.

Speaker 3 (02:04:46):
Looks like John Hayman reported yesterday on Bleacher Reports, the
two likely landing spots are either going to be the
Detroit Tigers or the Boston Red Sox. Alex Korra, bench
coach for aj Hinch when he was here with Houston.
Aj Hinch, manager of the Detroit Tigers, obviously the manager here,
So two familiar pieces where pregnant could end up.

Speaker 4 (02:05:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:05:09):
I just I just find it odd that were almost
they're moving up on spring training.

Speaker 4 (02:05:12):
He's still not a Yeah. Their biggest signing was Glabatres. Yeah,
it's gonna be weird seeing him out of a Yankee uniform, right. So,
I mean, you've got a lot of versatility. You add
Bregmant to that infield on a team that's already good
with the best left hander in baseball right now, at
least in the American League. Yeah. So, and his odds
to win the Cy Young Award again are at the
top of the American League list. So I don't know

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if if you'd think that aj would have the ear
of the of the ownership of the general manager, why
wouldn't you push for this? And if you love him
that much and know what he's about, getting to one
hundred and ninety to two hundred shouldn't be a problem, right,
So I just find it odd. I do too, I
find it really do. I just don't understand what's taking

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so long. If he's that coveted of a free agent,
wi are teams not signing him yet? I wonder what? Yeah,
and I do. I wonder what psyche as in mindset
is as we are entering to January and a week
away from mid.

Speaker 3 (02:06:05):
January, right, yeah, So once we get to the mid
midway point of January, then we are a month away
from pitchers and catchers reporting.

Speaker 4 (02:06:13):
So when's he gonna sign somewhere? No doubt? And what
the hell's the hold up? Agree? And again I'm gonna
continue to say it.

Speaker 3 (02:06:20):
He's gonna end up signing somewhere for the same type
of money the Astros offered him. He's gonna sign for
twenty seven a year, twenty six a year. Watch, it's
gonna happen. Which why wouldn't you want to just be here?

Speaker 4 (02:06:31):
I don't know, that's my whole Well why why not?

Speaker 17 (02:06:33):
Well?

Speaker 4 (02:06:33):
I mean, but then again, dude, I what moves athletes
is beyond me at times, and everybody's moved by something different.

Speaker 3 (02:06:43):
So take me into the mind of a pro athlete
with this type of situation. You grew up in the organization,
You've done really good things here, you met your wife here.
Your wife is from Houston, so is her family. You've
got business ventures here is you know what I mean?
But you have an organization that has backed you all
the way.

Speaker 4 (02:07:02):
You still have a good core. The window is still
open to win. So by our great reporters here with
the cover it like chanlo Chandlerome attack Taggart. Let's just
start there. If there was another offer that was bigger
from the tech, from the Astros, those two would be
on it. Yeah. Yes, so I'm assuming. I'm just telling

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you I'm trying to get in the head of an athlete.
Guys I've sat next to or in my contract situation.
It's lesser money, but you know what I'm saying, it's
relative of what would you be going through right now.
As to why, it's obvious you want you want a
cold hard facts. It's obvious that the price that he
wants doesn't match what teams think they're getting. It's just
simple that they think that he's overpriced or he would

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have been signed by now. That's this is just my
That's how I feel. One. Two is is there a part?
Remember I told you at the beginning of this, and
it was before the season was over. I said, and
I'm not saying this is a slap in the face off.
I'm talking about hi baseball terms, not in real life
terms in baseball terms. I told you, I said, guys
have great players have egos, and they do an ego

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of not being the highest paid third base and may
bother you. I don't know. Maybe he thinks he should be.
There's that he's got an agent that wants to get
every ounce of out of the turnup, squeeze every in
and out of the turn up, right, every ounce. But
remember I said, whatever you do with the first offer,
don't I don't want to say, embarrass him in his mind,
don't lowball him in his mind to the point where

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it becomes a bitter thought. Not bitter at the organization
for his career, but like, nah, they got no chance.
Well he wants two hundred and they're a buck fifty
six six one fifty six. That's fifty million dollars. Yeah,
So is there part of him now that's just the
ship sailed where he's like the fact that they didn't
come in at one seventy or one seventy five to

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blow out other teams. They like me that much for
what I've done here, they should have made it easy
for me to stay. If that's his thought, I don't know.
And the ashes, I'm sure feel like that's a fair offer.
So if there hasn't been another one, is there just
a part? You know what it is? Sometimes you get
stuck and maybe his performance, maybe he feels like he
needs a change of pace, that he needs a different energy.

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I know the investment. He can come here in the
off season, if that's okay, all that investment, so if
you can still do investments from another city. But they
love him here and beloved. But it is he getting
to the point where he feels it stale and that
the team that he needs to move on because he
doesn't think that the championship windows is open as maybe
we do. I don't know. I'm just giving you all
the thought. What else could it be? I guess the
number one thing is he wants more than teams are

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willing to give him, and he is right now priced
himself out with some of those teams, whatever, whether you
agree or disagree, if they were in love with Alex
Bregman across the league five teams, Alex Bregman would be
in a bidding war and two hundred wouldn't be enough.
He'd be above that. It's obviously not a bidding war.
That doesn't mean he's not gonna get one seventy. But
as we sit today, there is a reason he's not signed,

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whether he doesn't like the offer or he doesn't like
to sitch situation. So that tells you if you're getting
the same offer from put it this way. If he
gets a similar offer from somebody else and still leaves
he wanted out in the first one, that's exactly right.
He don't want to be now. I don't know what
the I don't know if that's right or if what
he's going to be the decision's going to make. But
if he is at the point where the same offer

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came within a couple million bucks over the entire package
and he still leaves, it's either they said they nudged
him out the door and he knows it. I'm sure
Scott Morris has done plenty of due diligence, or Alex
Bregman thinks at the same price after whatever they got
no shot a him. I'm going to lean more towards

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I mean that some ego and probably getting way as
they do for all of us. They come into play
as they should. So it makes him a great player,
aside from hard work and putting his time in. But
if the market was ripe in eight different cities for
for Alex Bregman, you we wouldn't be having this conversation

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in January. That doesn't mean he's not a good player,
but obviously the teams think a little differently about what
you're getting than what he thinks he's giving giving them.

Speaker 3 (02:11:14):
I think if there's anything that you should look at
if you are him, and again he might obviously he
wants more money. They offered him the largest contracts in astro,
or at least in the saying you're not.

Speaker 4 (02:11:26):
A slap in the face. But to him maybe who knows.
Think about it another thing.

Speaker 3 (02:11:30):
The highest contract under Jim Crane was five years, one
fifty one for Jose Altuve. They are going to build
a statue for Jose al Tuove when it's all said
and done outside of Minute May Park. He got offered
more than Jose Altuve.

Speaker 4 (02:11:44):
Okay, so with the highest Okay, so then there here
we are, and it's still not happening, right, so there's
something else to it?

Speaker 14 (02:11:52):
Then?

Speaker 4 (02:11:52):
Correct? Yeah, Okay, you're him, You put yourself in the shoes,
you think you're worth more in the team. Come says
here one hundred and fifty six million, highest paid player
ever by a handful of million dollars. Yeah, in this organization.
But you want two hundred and they're fifty million dollars
off you coming back to the same place or do
you feel do you feel that, man, they know what

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they get in me. Shouldn't they have raised it a
little more? Because I hell, I've been here my whole career.
Is there a part of that that would be in
your system a little bit?

Speaker 1 (02:12:20):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (02:12:20):
Fifty million difference, right, that's a big big So, so
you're you're a little bit, probably a little bit butt hurt, right,
Maybe a little bit, Yeah, maybe not enough to make
the sen It was Kyle. You think Kyle Tucker was
butt hurt over the arbitragistration? Yeah two years ago? Yeah, absolutely,
maybe not a lot. It didn't You still want to
still there? It exists? Yeah, So but here's the here's

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the reality of it. Ain't nobody right now as we
speak offer an Alex Bregman two hundred million dollars. So
if it's one sixty one or one fifty six. I
always tell you, if it's within that range, why would
you leave? Yeah, if it's in that range, and he
does leave, I'm just telling you now that means to
me from my vantage point and to seeing it in law.

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He wanted out anyway, needed wanted a fresh change. He
didn't want to be here. Let's get out of Houston
for a while. I want to go somewhere else. Yeah,
you don't want to be here. That happened. Some guys
just need a change of venue, and that may very
well be the case. But the gap, I'm anxious to
see what he signs for because that'll tell you how
far off the tech the Astros really were. When it
all comes to it, it'll be like one sixty. There's

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not there's not just one reason. But it all stems
from the number one reason, and that's the money that
you think, ain't the money with others are thinking? Right?
Carlos Korea saw it, Yeah, he saw. I think Korea
wanted out anyways. I think I don't think.

Speaker 3 (02:13:36):
Plus, I think they're they're Their offer was a pretty
damn low ball.

Speaker 4 (02:13:40):
Wasn't it. I assume so? But he wanted out? Are
you sure? Are you sure? Alex doesn't? No, I don't know.
I know, I don't. We'll find out. Yeah, there you go. Yeah,
five year, one sixty is what they offered Carlos Korea. Well,
that would have been the highest contract and then then
and that's three years ago.

Speaker 3 (02:13:56):
Yeah, yeah, that's three years ago. I don't know, man,
we'll find out.

Speaker 4 (02:14:01):
Money could be a bitch, but I know we can't
get it back of it and too much yeah, too
much of it?

Speaker 10 (02:14:05):
Man.

Speaker 3 (02:14:05):
All right, let's get to break. Let's get back to
talking Texans. What about the underdog the underdog mentality?

Speaker 4 (02:14:10):
That's next.

Speaker 2 (02:14:13):
Sean Salisbury Show continues on Sports Talk seven ninety Home
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Speaker 4 (02:14:23):
You got a party? Yeah, I mean tripley. We're going
to the Leo Club or whatever what they called. Hyeah,
you don't want to talk about it on there. That's fine,
that's okay, Yeah, yeah, exactly. No free pub? What is it?
Is it a place at the V at the PV No,
huh per review at the View on the south side?
Oh nice? Who's who's the regular there? Trip? That's a

(02:14:43):
that's his visitation? Huh yeah? Nice? Yeah? Man, you want
to go? No, I'm good. I'll be the only white
guy in there. Is Come on with it? Is that
about that? It's just that that's where we're going. If
they'll give me fifty five degrees.

Speaker 6 (02:14:59):
You go to.

Speaker 4 (02:15:01):
I'll tell you give me forty nine and no wind.
I'm good. It's gonna be cold like that, get hot?
Did you walk aroun? After about two swings, you're you're
good and ready to go. Give me fifty degrees and
it's country club. You're not a fifty degree no whin,
I'm in. How are you gonna play golf this weekend
when there's football on every day? Well that's why I not. Yeah,
that's why. Now I could now the thing, But the
problem is, like you know, this time when you wake,

(02:15:23):
I like early tea time, but then it's like thirty three, right,
that's and by the time you would be done, the
games will be starting. But now if you go out
there in the middle of the day where it's fifty
one or fifty degrees, the games are on, So you're
gonna miss me. So I won't be playing, which sucks. Sucks, right,
you know next week next week, next week? Yeah, yeah,
it'll be the divisional round of the playoffs. Next weekend though. Yeah,

(02:15:46):
I know you've got attack the pen dog.

Speaker 3 (02:15:48):
Yeah, seven one, three, five, seven ninety star with Scott
and we'll get the John Scott, good morning.

Speaker 12 (02:15:55):
Good morning, guys.

Speaker 18 (02:15:56):
A funny comment here when uh Triple E pape is
the music and gall are jamming. I got this picture
of y'all in the radio station, just standing up and
dancing and all that stuff.

Speaker 4 (02:16:06):
Well, that's exactly that. That's a very valid picture if
you know what we're doing. You're right, that's exactly what
we do.

Speaker 8 (02:16:13):
Yeah, you know it's something I really don't want to
see it, but.

Speaker 4 (02:16:16):
Oh yeah you do. You do, man, I assure you
you want to see you man, you may not like it,
but you do want to see it. Yeah, exactly. You know,
y'all can make the call.

Speaker 12 (02:16:28):
Y'all can make the call.

Speaker 8 (02:16:30):
You know this whole bragman thing. Perception is reality.

Speaker 18 (02:16:34):
Okay, let's go back in time to Sprayer, the debacle
with Korea and now Bregman, anybody that was perceived.

Speaker 8 (02:16:44):
To be involved in the cheating scandal.

Speaker 18 (02:16:47):
He's look, they may not be saying it, but these
owners know, and this is how they're penalizing these guys. Okay,
And to y'all's point earlier, the astros made a.

Speaker 8 (02:16:58):
Very valid offer.

Speaker 18 (02:17:00):
If you look at somebody like Altuovay, Okay, he signs
two contracts right all into whatever, one hundred and fifty,
one hundred and twenty five, whatever it was.

Speaker 8 (02:17:09):
He proved himself for five years and deserved the other contract.

Speaker 18 (02:17:12):
Okay, why can't these people see that meaning Bregman, Boris,
et cetera, and.

Speaker 8 (02:17:18):
Basically say, you know what, this is his value.

Speaker 12 (02:17:22):
They made a valid offer.

Speaker 8 (02:17:23):
He's going to get exactly what the Astros gave him.

Speaker 18 (02:17:25):
Somebody may give him five million more just to say
they did. But he's backed himself into a corner now,
and I just wanted to you know, it's just something
about the cheating scandal and the people that were perceived
to be involved in it. This is how they're getting
back to him through money. So that's just my take.
And want to see what your thoughts are on.

Speaker 4 (02:17:44):
Thanks, Scott. That's something I really didn't ever think of it,
you know what I've It's entered my mind because I
wonder if teams are really if if the grudge is
so big they're saying, we want you, but you're gonna
come at our terms because we still don't forget. I
can't tell him that that that calls wrong.

Speaker 3 (02:18:02):
No, I mean to be honest with you, I forgot
about the cheating scandal. So that's why I didn't think
about it. Right now that I he reminded, it makes
sense to at.

Speaker 4 (02:18:10):
Least can it bears at least it does beg the
question of is it real? Is that really exist if
you're going to help your team get better? Maybe it does.
I don't know. And maybe people think Bregman's game has
fallen off a little. I don't know. But there's a reason,
and he is perception can be reality in this situation.

(02:18:31):
Why isn't he getting paid the money that he wants?
And in truth, and you've painted and if you have
painted yourself into a corner, guess what can you imagine
if all this remember you said, it would like, I
won't be able to believe it. If he takes the
same amount of money and play somewhere else, that would
be a gut punch. Yeah, I think it's gonna happen.
I think it's well, if it's not the same amount,

(02:18:52):
it'll be close.

Speaker 3 (02:18:53):
I think it'll be a buck sixty it'll be I
think it'll be a buck sixty bucks sixty five. It'll
be close to what the Astros offering.

Speaker 4 (02:19:01):
And I seriously wonder now that he brought it up.
If that does, if it affects anybody that they're bitter
that they like the player, but this is our way
of saying, you're not gonna give what you want, You're
gonna play on our terms. Yeah, I don't know. I
don't either. I don't know. Are they not over it?

Speaker 5 (02:19:20):
Is it?

Speaker 4 (02:19:21):
You know? Bregman was part of it. He was on
this team in the heart of it, and everybody knows
that the question is to help your team. A lot
of teams people can look over the Oh, I don't
care about his past. He can help us win, and
Bregman can help a team win, there is no doubt.
But then there's there may be some that say, you
know what, nah, not for me. I didn't like it,

(02:19:41):
then I don't like it. Now we'll We'll get by
without having to spend a buck sixty on him, And
I understand.

Speaker 3 (02:19:48):
Kind of makes you think the only reportedly the only
two teams that are left interested in him are both
got coaches and managers that were both involved.

Speaker 4 (02:20:00):
Who else is? Who else is talking about it about him?
Who else is at least on the rumor front? Who
see Tigers and Red Sox? That's it? That's it makes
you wonder.

Speaker 3 (02:20:14):
Man aj Hinch with the Tigers, Alex Cora with the
Red Sox, both very involved in the cheating scandal.

Speaker 4 (02:20:22):
Here makes you think, yeah, yeah, I've told I would
have bet anything that he wouldn't have been available this
long interl I' the same man. I would have taken
that bet.

Speaker 3 (02:20:32):
I thought he was going to be signed, either during
the Winter meetings or right after it, right after the
Sodo news dropped. I thought maybe a couple days after.
I thought he was gonna be one of the higher
coveted free agents. I really did, and I thought he
was gonna sign for over two undred million. And the
Winter meetings came and went, Christmas got here, no news,
no news.

Speaker 4 (02:20:50):
Here we are It's January ninth. So yeah, I mean
you start, I mean, there's only so many layers that
can have Yeah, the question is is there when if
there's seven layers of it, do five of them that
we went over, well it could be this are five
of them involved? Or is it just won simply come
they're not offering the money you want, so people are

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backing off. And when you start to say, if Alex
Bregman said I'll take one sixty five for Wood. Would
eight more teams jump into the fray or would they
just bey we're geting? You know what?

Speaker 3 (02:21:19):
Yeah, we're okay, we've moved on, just like the Astros did.
They went't trade and got Esich.

Speaker 4 (02:21:23):
Well, as we sit right now, you know who the
Giants paid, right, Yeah? Yeah, they got Willie Domas and
Justin Verlander. Are you so you're telling me that going
into this and Dom's a good player, but you're telling
me going to this he's more coveted than Alex Bregman. No,
you're not. I mean, well into it, you wouldn't said

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it no going into it.

Speaker 3 (02:21:45):
No, but the way that the contract was signed and
the amount of money got, Yes, they went out and
got their guy.

Speaker 4 (02:21:51):
So now if you're Bregmant, do you not only compare like, well,
there's Matt Chapman and there's these guys. Yeah, and Machado,
but now look what he got, right, So I don't know, man,
it is a there's no way that the Boris Bragman
camp or excited about what's going on right now.

Speaker 3 (02:22:10):
Let's see seven year, one eighty two for Willia Doomas.

Speaker 4 (02:22:15):
That's good sounds twenty six million year Man. That's Bill
of damas Man. Excuse me.

Speaker 3 (02:22:20):
Bregman's gonna end up going somewhere for twenty six to
twenty seven million a year.

Speaker 4 (02:22:25):
Watch it just won't be here.

Speaker 3 (02:22:27):
Let's get to break seven one, three, two, five seven,
and you will continue to take your calls, John, Mike
will get to you guys next, uh Man, Let's uh
let's continue to DISCUSSI about Alex Bregman next to sport
Stock seven ninety. The Shawn Salisbury Show continued, John, thank
you for holding good morning.

Speaker 4 (02:22:48):
Hey, what's going on? Branchn Nickia my take?

Speaker 5 (02:22:51):
He is the rocket Nick here, brain, Jimmy home, Brain,
Jimmy Home. They got a good team, they got a great.

Speaker 12 (02:23:00):
Coach, and they just that one player way that grew.

Speaker 5 (02:23:03):
I think if Jimmy get a new a new a
new place like coming back home to Houston, fit right
into that rocket lineup, and I guarantee you two dollars
to a dollar, he'll make a difference with the young
players and him and and and teaching them boys and
getting that new spirit, that new blood being back at home. Hey,

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I go for it. Then, Hey, pat Ryder and give
him up. Mike costs him a draft pick, but he'll
give him up if the right you know, the right
opportunity come along and the right thing.

Speaker 4 (02:23:35):
So I want all the pinion on that. But I think, figure, hey, John,
let me ask you on uh with with Jimmy, who
I think is a hell of a player, and we
know what a tough, hard nose player is. Is there
any chance and I don't know the answer, is there
any chance that the Rockets would say, I know, bringing
him home, we're onto something really good meaning us as

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a wrong we got a good thing going on. Do
you want to strong personality to disrupt that? Is there
any risk of that happening?

Speaker 5 (02:24:05):
Well, Shawl, I tell you I really don't think so.
Think so because I think that him coming home, I
think he got about what about three four more years
give a take in the league. I think he will
want to retire home. I think he'll come in and
I think he'll be the perfect example really because of

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the coach they have. And I think that if he
coming to that situation with a good team, of the
team is already at the top, and I think he
could come in there and blend in there. And I
think by him being at home and it's surround us.
I think he'll sell down and I think he could,
you know, make a difference.

Speaker 4 (02:24:45):
Sounds good, There's no doubt he's ollow player, could is.
But then you here's what you got to take. Strong personality.
How happy will he be? I would hope he's had,
but it's it's it's following him around. So he's a
great player, and he's tough, and you're gonna tell minutes
away from guys that are getting them right now. So
you got to understand. I hear it all the time
with the Astles. So do we want to disrupt the

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clubhouse like that? Do you want to bring in a
strong personality, that's really strong personality and disrupt something that's
headed what appears to be in the right direction. Not
that Jimmy won't take Jimmy. Maybe the piece gets NBA Championship.
I don't know, But in that locker room, are you
willing to somebody's going to suffer minutes wise a lot
of them. You ain't bring it in here Jimmy to
come off the bench and to play fifteen minutes a night.

(02:25:28):
You're bringing in here. Be a dominant personality. So if
you feel like you're lacking clubhouse, toughness in leadership or
locker room. Okay, but if you feel like the headache
could end up being bigger than the reward, do you
take too tight and on leave where he is? Yeah,
I'm okay on Jimmy Butler. There's no tweeer on Jimmy Butler.

(02:25:50):
You're either in or you're out. I'm out. I'm in
on the talent, I'm out on the wondering what the
impact you'd feel for a bunch of young players because
Jimmy ain't playing now. I mean, you got a fist
fight on the practice during practice. Okay, whatever it takes,
and maybe it's needed, but it feels like the head
coach has that handled. Yeah, I think so. I think
he's got the toughs. That's the thing that I They

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would concern me, Now what wouldn't concern me? Does it
make them a better team? Just on paper? Sure it
does does well? What are you going to give up
to get him? Yeah? Then you got to give up.
What are you giving up?

Speaker 3 (02:26:21):
You'd have to give up picks. You'd have to give
up probably a player or two. And I'm not about it, man.
They got some really good assets, meaning pickwise from the Suns.
They got a first round pick coming up, an unprotected
pick from the Suns. So depending on where the Sun's
finished this year and they're not very good, that pick
could be really, really, really vital. So to continue to
grow this young core, you'd.

Speaker 4 (02:26:41):
Have to move some pieces to get Jimmy, and will
the same rhythm be that we'll lose Jimmy good? I mean,
at this stage, does he take you to a level
that the team's not at already?

Speaker 3 (02:26:51):
Yeah, I'm there's guys like a Men Thompson that I
want to see in the starting lineup.

Speaker 4 (02:26:57):
I'm going to say the majority of people are out.
Yeah I'm out, man, I'm good. But I get John's
enthusiasm about it, because when you hear Jimmy Butler could
be a v it's like, oh my gosh. But then again,
you got to understand dealing with him and a free
agent where you can walk in, you can sign them,
you're gonna have to give up something. And this team's
playing pretty good basketball this year and they look like
they're on the quantum leap. Part of this, you just

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got to understand what will it disrupt and what will
it add and do the checklist and one out weighs
the other go ahead. I'm not sure that they would
think that one out ways the other. But you're always
trying to improve your roster if you think it.

Speaker 3 (02:27:29):
Can make you better, Like with a men Thompson obviously,
Jabari Smith Junior being hurt, a men Thompson seeing more
starting lineup, Like I want to see a men Thompson
being the starting lineup every single day, because the kid's unbelievable.

Speaker 4 (02:27:39):
Man, don't you say amen to that? Amen? Amen? Let's
take one more quick call Mike. What's going on?

Speaker 17 (02:27:45):
Hey, guys, I just had a thing about Bregmant, you know,
being with the Astros. He pays eighty one games in Texas,
maybe some with the Rangers and maybe a few with
the Marlins or Rays, but all those states no proper,
I mean no state income taxes. Do athletes ever take
that into an I mean, if you're just a few

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million apart, that difference could easily be absorbed in savings
and state income taxes.

Speaker 3 (02:28:13):
Appreciate it, Mike Wheel address that we gotta get to break.
We've talked about this, Sean. I mean, do athletes really
think about that? I probably not.

Speaker 4 (02:28:21):
I think they do. If it's a major. I mean
that they do, but that is not first on their
Bengo card when it comes to I get why they would.
He's right, man, all the state tax you can say.
But if you're making that much money, they think, well,
all make it up. I got money to pay taxes.
It's fine, of course it comes into play. But on
the checklist it won't finish in the top three or four. No, no,

(02:28:43):
I won't.

Speaker 3 (02:28:44):
All right, let's get into the final segment. We got
to make some picks on this Penn State and Notre
Dame Orange Bowl that's next.

Speaker 1 (02:28:54):
This is the Sean Saliscary show.

Speaker 4 (02:28:59):
That's beautiful.

Speaker 3 (02:29:01):
For the Cotton Bowl. All right, who you like tonight?
Penn State, Notre Dame, Notre Dame.

Speaker 4 (02:29:09):
Yeah, give me Notre Dame as well. What's the spread?
Buck and a half or something?

Speaker 3 (02:29:15):
Spread is currently? Oh did they bring it down? Let's see,
I sure did. It's only one now. It was one
and a half when we started the show.

Speaker 4 (02:29:26):
Favorite Notre Dame. One, give me Notre Dame on the
money line. I think their team speed is going to
be too much for Penn State. Yeah. I think they
got one more big playing offense than than than Penn State. Does.
I think that the ending key to it maybe Riley

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Leonard's legs. Saw last he throw, his legs were the difference.
He threw for ninety yards. Yeah, they're gonna have to
throw for more than ninety yards to win tonight, But
I still think they can. This is a twenty three
to twenty one game. This is I take. I take
Notre Dame on the money line. Give me them.

Speaker 3 (02:30:08):
Man, we could see Notre Dame back in the national
title game. It seems like every time they're in the
title game they get their ass kicked. I think this
is a different They're built different this year. Yeah, And
for me, I've been calling them overrated pretty much just
up until about four weeks ago.

Speaker 4 (02:30:21):
Three weeks ago, I'd say they're doing they're they're doing
a good job of not beating themselves, man of not
you know, turning it over in a short field and
the rest and Penn State's opportunistic great player on defense,
great player on offense, and both defenses in this game.
Then I'll be physical. It'll be a player too, But
keep an eye on the running game of Notre Dame,
not just a quarterback, but that backfield because They live off.

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Everything they do is off that. You know, how you
run an offense to a player in basketball. They're running
their entire offense through how they Leonard's legs and love
in the backfield and how they do that, and then
they'll mix and the rest of the stuff. This is
gonna be a fun game to watch. It it may
not be as pretty as you'd like it. You may
see in some other the Ohio State Texas game, it
feels to me like one sitting down in a lunch

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pail meal, you know, that had a brown bag meal,
and the other ones that's being served a big time
steak dinner five at had a five star restaurant, meaning
Texas and Ohio State just because of they're they're just
they do things that look a little prettier. Right. This
will be grinded out guts and it sounds so cliche,
but these two teams have won like that all year long,

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and quite frankly, Notre Dame can score some points now
and they've proven that. But I love the defensive battle.
This is about as close and we don't get this
that much in college football anymore, where both teams are
still a little old school, not just the blue blood program,
but just kind of you know, there's no flash and
dash of Oregon's four hundred uniforms, and this is just

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light them up and we can take this game and
play it back in nineteen seventy five. Other than the
way the offense looks like an RPOs which we didn't
run back then. But that's what this game feels like.
The other one feels like it feels like where I'm
in a freaking four by one track me. Yet Ohio
State's defense be goods areas in the country, and Texas's defense,

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through times of inconsistency offensively have reared their head and
made a bunch of plays.

Speaker 3 (02:32:14):
You have for the top seven defenses in all of
college football in the playoffs still.

Speaker 4 (02:32:20):
Yeah, which is crazy, yeah, crazy.

Speaker 3 (02:32:23):
The Ohio State has a number one defense, Well, it's
either hit them or Penn State one of them. One's one,
one's two, and then Texas is the number foe that
I believe Notre Dame is seven something like that. Literally,
for the top seven defenses in the country are all
in these college football playoffs semi finals.

Speaker 4 (02:32:38):
Well, if you're one that likes to argue that defense
is win championships, well, here you go. If you've got
a good defensive play and great defensive play and your
quarterback protects the ball, you probably got a pretty good
chance of winning the whole thing. If everybody plays their best,
I would think that Ohio State probably has the best team.

Speaker 3 (02:32:56):
Yeah, excuse me, it's Ohio State's number one. Notre Dame
is number two, Texas number four, and then Penn State's
number seven.

Speaker 4 (02:33:01):
I have those mixed up. But and yet Penn State
will physically pound on you defensively as much as anybody
at seven. This is gonna be fun game tonight. Tomorrow's
is gonna be like the gear up and don't blink
tonight maybe gos shank it's ten to seven and we're
in the middle of the second. Yeah, they could be
that kind of game.

Speaker 3 (02:33:16):
Uh, just real quick looking at looking at these rosters.
Notre Dame one five star player, fifty eight four stars,
twenty three three stars, eight two stars, and on the
other side, Penn State has three five stars, forty four
four stars, thirty eight three stars to two stars, and
then Texas and ohaios eate These numbers are ridiculous. Thirteen
five star players for Ohio State fifty five four stars,

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ten to three stars, no two stars. Texas has seven
five star players, forty three four stars, twenty five three
stars and four two star players.

Speaker 4 (02:33:48):
Son, they all are loaded, but it just kind of
goes in place. Don't be misunderstand. Both Penn State Notre
Dame got a lot of great football players, a lot
of they got great depth, but they just they're more
of a they're just not going to quite get the
same people Ohio State in Texas to Oh they're gonna
get them, but they're gonna get less of them. Yeah,
when it comes to that five star. Now, I know

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plenty of three stars that have out played five stars
many a time, no doubt so they did. When you
line up and play tonight, that star means zero. But
it just goes to show you how all of them
can recruit great players. But the truth is Notre Dame
and Penn State are doing it with more four star
guys that that had to beat out a five star guy,
or that were that that five star guy they were
recruiting whin somewhere else, the four star comes in and

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places his ass off, and that's that's what you're getting tonight.
But it's a good old fashioned body blows tonight. So
you got Notre Dame, I got Notre Dame. Triple you
got Notre Dame as well. Indeed Triple has got Notre Dame.
I think Notre Dame is gonna win.

Speaker 3 (02:34:46):
Wet's see though, Man, it's gonna be a fun one
six thirty kickoff at least a little bit earlier.

Speaker 4 (02:34:51):
Yeah, I've been on a long time since I've seen
Notre Dame run like they run this year speed. I'm
talking about speed. So yeah, and it is an earlier game,
which is great. But the truth manage it wouldn't matter.
Would just suck it up because tomorrow's Friday anyway, Right,
So once ten o'clock hits you on your three day weekend,
is ten o'clock's early in the day. Yeah, so stay
up and watch it and get after it.

Speaker 3 (02:35:10):
Hey, A couple of Texans notes real quick as they
get ready for practice. John Metchi returned to practice yesterday,
and so did the Nico Autry. Yeah so one defensive player,
one wide receiver.

Speaker 4 (02:35:20):
So go bodies will be important. Yep. Shack Mason still out.
Can't wait to see this one as well. Great to
mcl spring doesn't look like he's gonna play. Oh, they
physically show up in this one. That's gonna be fun.

Speaker 3 (02:35:32):
Yeah, looking forward to that one as well. Excuse me,
so Orange Bowl tonight seven or excuse me six thirty,
and then these Rockets and Grizzlies. That's gonna be a
good one. Rockets number two seed, Grizzlies number three seed.
See how they fare against Memphis. Be a good one.

Speaker 4 (02:35:48):
I hope you guys have a great day. Thanks many,
toot to do it. That's gonna do it.

Speaker 3 (02:35:51):
For the Shaun Salisbury Show, he is Sean Salisbury. Our
producer is Triple Emmanuel Elmore I and Brian li Lima.

Speaker 4 (02:35:56):
Thank you for listening.

Speaker 3 (02:35:57):
We are back tomorrow morning, Funky Friday Day. We're gonna
break down the Texans and Chargers who play on Saturday,
discuss the Orange Bowl results, and of course give you
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